lūda(/i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3044
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
lūda(/i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
A single attestation of the lexeme is known from a fragment belonging to a mugawar.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. c., dat./loc. pl. or nom./acc. sg. n. | GIŠlu-u-da-an-za | KBo 29.49 obv.? 9’ | (CTH 756, NS) |
Melchert 1994a:265 commits himself to an acc. pl., but does not provide any reason for it. The fragmentary context demands caution.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
Since DLL:64, the word is translated as ‘window’, based on the assonance with Hitt. luttāi- n. ‘window’ and the use of the determinative GIŠ for wooden objects (Eichner 1973a:80, CLL:130, Melchert 1994a:242 and 265, HHw:96, HED L:126). However, not only do Luwian singleton and Hittite geminate alveolars diverge, but also there is nothing in the context to support the idea, which, consequently, is not adopted here (doubts were also raised in HEG L-N:80, EDHIL:535).
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1.1.5Stem
The morphologically indeterminate ending -anza could belong to stems in -(i)- c., -a- c., or -(a)- n.
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