tarwayann(i)-
‘the wooden one (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2791
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
tarwayann(i)-
‘the wooden one (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in a song belonging to the cult of Ištanuwa.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat. sg. | tar-wa-ia-an-ni | KUB 25.39 iv 2 | (CTH 773, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv)
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1.1.4Meaning
Formally speaking, tarwayann(i)- should be an individualizing formation in -ann(i)- built on the adjective tarwai(ya)- ‘wooden (?)’, i.e. ‘the wooden one’.Contra Yakubovich pers. comm., a diminutive function is only possible if the derivational base is a substantive. It occurs as the indirect object of the verb ḫūḫuiyanda ‘they walked/ran’ and agrees grammatically with meniyalli, though considered here to be a false reading (see under lemma). No meaning is suggested in Laroche 1959a:94 and CLL:219.
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