duššaniyalla-
‘(a functionary)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3020
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
duššaniyalla-
‘(a functionary)’1.1.1Transmission
All attestations occur in similar song incipits from the Ištanuwa festival texts.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | du-uš-⸢ša-ni⸣-ia-al-la-aš | KUB 35.135 rev. 22’ | (CTH 772, NS) |
| ⸢du-uš⸣-ša-ni-ia-al-la-aš | KBo 4.11, 54 | (CTH 772, NS) | |
| du-uš-ša-ni-ia-la-aš | KUB 30.167 iii 8’ | (CTH 773, LNS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The parallel incipits mention the duššaniyalla-, who is supposed to enable someone else to perform: “Let the duššaniyalla- functionary give me (an) action(s)/act!” However, the generalized wording does not permit a further specification of the meaning (Sasseville 2014-2015a:117, Kloekhorst 2006c:117 n. 15; no meaning is offered in DLL:100, CLL:237, HHw:182).
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1.1.5Stem
Melchert (CLL:237) points out that a nom. sg. in -aš, instead of -iš, is unexpected, but Sasseville 2014-2015a:117 plausibly claims that the suffix found in duššaniyalla- and other nouns in -alla- goes back to complex *-él-eh2- with individualizing *-eh2-. Accordingly, the noun belongs to the non-mutating class in -a-.
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