kaldunn(i)-

The noun occurs in ritual fragments from the Kuwattalla and Tauriša traditions and from a mugawar (all NS).

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nom. sg.	[UZUkal-d]u-un-ni-iš	KBo 29.16 ii? 8’	(CTH 761, NS)
	UZUkal-d[u-un-ni-iš]	KBo 29.31 iv 3’	(CTH 756, NS)
	UZUkal-du-un-n[i-iš]	KBo 29.31 iv 4’	(CTH 756, NS)
acc. sg.	⸢kal⸣-du-ni-in	KBo 13.260 ii 12	(CTH 766, NS)
	kal-du-ni-in	KBo 13.260 ii 13	(CTH 766, NS)
		KBo 29.27 i 6’	(CTH 766, NS)

The assignment to the present lexeme of ]x-al-du-ni-i-ia at KUB 35.48 iii 13’ and duplicate ]x-al-du-ni-ia KUB 32.4, 6’ as considered in CLL:98 is less than assured. The ending points to a stem in -i(ya)-, hence the assignment to the lemma kaldunni(ya)- in DCL:s.v.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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Contra Haas & Thiel 1978a:288, Poetto 1983c:37f. argued that ^UZUkaldunn(i)- cannot denote a tool, but must, on account of the determinative UZU, be the name of a body-part. Moreover, the syntagma of ⸢i⸣-šar-ú-i-li-iš ^UZUkal-du-un-ni[-iš] “the right kaldunn(i)-” at KBo 29.31 iv 4’ shows that the body-part occurs in pairs. Following Starke (apud Poetto 1983c:37f.), [kald]unniš at KBo 29.16 ii^? 8’ matches ^UZUwallaš ḫaštai ‘bone of the thigh’, attested two lines earlier (ibid. ii^? 6’) in the description of the ritual performance. Consequently, ^UZUkaldunn(i)- can be assigned the meaning ‘thigh-bone’ (Melchert in DCL:s.v.), thus specifying the widely accepted translation ‘thigh’ (see Poetto 1983c:37f., CLL:98, HHw:70, Yakubovich 2019a:554; different Starke 1990a:62: ‘shoulder blade, haunch’). Melchert’s modified meaning assignment facilitates an easier fit with the context from KBo 13.260 ii 12f., in which the kaldunn(i)- is listed among several tools (treated in Yakubovich 2019a:554), since the use of strong bones as tools is well-known.

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Starke 1990a:62 classifies the lexeme as a stem in -ann(i)- (with syncopated *-uwa- > -u-). The formant preceding -ann(i)- is most likely *-tu- as in Hitt. egdu- ‘leg’, see also under Origin.

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Melchert (DCL:s.v.) connects CLuw. kaldunn(i)- ‘thigh-bone’ to the root of Gk. σκέλος ‘thigh’.

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