appar(a)i-^(di)

The verb is found once in the MS manuscript of a birth ritual of the Tauriša tradition.

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3pl. impv. act.

ap-pa-ra-i-in-⸢du⸣

KBo 29.25 iii 14

(CTH 764, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The verb has not received a semantic interpretation so far (CLL:22, HHw:18). The only analysis offered is concerned with the derivation, i.e. Melchert assumes that the verb is a denominative based on adjectival *appara/i- ‘after-, later, younger’ (cf. HLuw. /appara/i-/, itself derived from the adverb appa ‘back, again’). While Melchert stops there, an informed interpretation can go further, starting from the hypothesis that the consecutive sentences in ii 13’f. are parallel in structure:

13’ [a-an         ]x x an-na-an pár-la-i-in du-ú-wa-an-⸢du⸣

14’ [                   ]x-an-za-pa-ku-wa an-na-an ap-pa-ra-i-in-⸢du⸣

If apparaīndu is transitive like dūwandu ‘let them place’, it should mean something like ‘to place in the rear’. While in apparaīndu the locational meaning (apart from dat./loc. pl. plus annan meaning ‘under’ and perhaps ‘among (?)’) is integrated in the lexeme, it is expressed by an extra word preceding dūwandu, viz. parlaīn. The opposite of *appara/i- ‘located behind’ would be an adjective ‘located in front’, which is perfectly conceivable for a putative formation par- < *pr̥-/pro- ‘in front’ plus adjectival *-lo- (cf. *šarla/i- ‘upper’) plus non-mutating -a- (cf. parla- ‘front position’) plus adjectival -i(ya)- (parlai(ya)- ‘related to the front position, located in front’). The acc. sg. form indicates the formal agreement with a restored pronominal direct object in sentence initial position and the depictive function of parlaīn. Accordingly, the resulting translation is: “Under/among^? [the ...] let them place [it/him] located in front position, but under/among^? [the ...] let them place (it/him) in the rear!”

[E.R.]

The 3pl. pres. act. in -aīndu can be assigned to a stem in -a(i)-^(di) or -(a)i-^(di) (Sasseville 2021a:81, 218). Either class contains denominative verbs, but the parallelism with šarl(a)i-^(di) suggests the latter analysis.

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