gullant(i)-
‘ring-shaped’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3161
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
gullant(i)-
‘ring-shaped’1.1.1Transmission
The adjective is found in NS manuscripts of rituals and in a cadaster text.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | g[ul]-la-an-ti-in | KBo 10.37 iii 18 | (CTH 429, NS) |
| [gul]-la-an-ti-en | KBo 13.156 obv. 8’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| gu[l-la-an]-te-en | KBo 13.156 obv. 7’ | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| gul-l[a-an-ti-in] | KBo 10.37 iii 29 | (CTH 429, NS) | |
| dat./loc. sg. | gul-la-an-ti | KUB 7.1 i 40 | (CTH 390, NS) |
| nom. pl. c. | gul-⸢la-an⸣-[ti-i]-e-eš | KBo 10.37 i 22’ | (CTH 429, NS) |
| gul-la-an-⸢te-eš⸣ | KUB 8.75 i 63’ | (CTH 239, NS) | |
| gul-l[a-an-te-eš] | KUB 8.75 i 53’ | (CTH 239, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Restoration at KBo 10.37 i 22’ after Christiansen 2006a:184.
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1.1.4Meaning
Melchert 1983b:138f. was the first to propose a translation, viz. ‘hollow, with a hole in it’. He is followed in HHw:83, Ünal 2007a:358, HED K:238f., Christiansen 2006a:184, 234. Melchert’s suggestion is based on the contextual analysis of KUB 7.1 i 1-42. In this passage, a child with a sick intestine is administered medicine both orally and anally and seated on a gullant(i)- chair, which Melchert plausibly argues must be a kind of toilet, probably a seat with a hole in it. The same adjective is also used as the attribute of ninda.gur4.ra ‘loaf of bread’ and a piece of land, which leads Christiansen to suggest ‘hollow’ in the former case. However, after GIŠgulluštānn(i)- has recently been interpreted as ‘muller’, a different perspective of the shape of the gullant(i)- chair is probably more appropriate, focusing on the material part of it, i.e. the ring. A translation ‘ring-shaped’ agrees well with the idea of a bread with a hole in it, and seems to be a suitable description for a plot of land. In this sense, the semantic interpretation by Melchert is modified here.
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1.1.5Stem
A conservative analysis of gullanteš and gullantin/gullantiyeš points to a variation between an nt- and an i-stem in Hittite. As Puhvel (HED K:238) highlights, this in turn suggests a borrowed Luwian stem gullant(i)- with i-mutation. Since participles in -ant(i)- have become unproductive, a possessive derivative in -ant(i)- based on a reconstructed noun *gulla- ‘ring’ can claim more probability.
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1.1.6Origin
Except for Puhvel (HED K:238), who characterizes the i-stem gullanti- as “Luwoid,” the scholars seem to presuppose a Hittite origin (more explicit Melchert 1983b:139 n. 7). The variation between the consonant- and i-stem supports Puhvel’s analysis, which is accepted here.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *gull-.