dūpana
‘affliction (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3079
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
dūpana
‘affliction (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole putative attestation of the lexeme occurs in a fragment of the Kuwattalla tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. c. or nom./acc. sg. n. | [d]u?-⸢ú?-pa?⸣-na | KUB 35.20 obv. 5’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
The case form depends on the syntactic analysis of dūpana as either the expression of a direction (Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:375 with n. 9) or an accusative of respect (DCL:s.v.).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The reading suggested in Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:375 is far from certain, but nothing speaks against it.
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1.1.4Meaning
The semantic interpretation of the putative lexeme (for its uncertain reading, see under Graphic Features) was proposed by Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:375 (see also DCL:s.v.). It relies, on the one hand, on the combination with walzammiš, a possible cognate of Hitt. walk- and walkiye/a- ‘to strike, abuse’, and on the other hand, on the assumed etymological relationship with the root of CLuw. dūp(a)i-(di) ‘to strike’. Accordingly, Melchert translates the syntagm dūpana walzammiš describing the substitute animal as “walza-ed into affliction” (with dat./loc. sg. interpretation of dūpana). Alternatively, his analysis of dūpana as nom./acc. pl. (DCL:s.v.) yields “walza-ed with regard to affliction.” Neither interpretation is fully satisfactory, which adds to the doubts expressed in the discussion of the reading (see under Graphic Features).
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1.1.5Stem
If the form dūpana is in fact a dat./loc. sg., the underlying stem belongs to the non-mutating common gender -a- class. If, however, we are dealing with a neuter nom./acc. pl., both an n-stem and a thematic stem pose viable options.
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