šānak(k)ukkulla-
‘(a plant)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3167
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
šānak(k)ukkulla-
‘(a plant)’1.1.1Transmission
The noun occurs in rituals from the Hurrian milieu (all NS).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | ša-a-na ku-uk-ku-ul-la-aš | KUB 7.1 i 22 | (CTH 390, NS) |
| [ša]-a-na-ku-⟨ku⟩-ku-ul-la-ašSAR | KBo 11.19 obv. 12’ | (CTH 788, NS) | |
| acc. sg. | ša-na-ak-ku-uk-ku-ul-la-an-⸢n(=)⸣ | KUB 51.18 obv. 16’ | (CTH 470, NS) |
| ša-a-na-ku-gul-la-anSAR | KBo 11.19 obv. 3 | (CTH 788, NS) | |
| ša-a-na ku-uk-ku-ul-la-an | KUB 7.1 i 37 | (CTH 390, NS) | |
| ša-⸢na-ku⸣-uk-kal-la-an | KBo 19.142 ii 18’ | (CTH 721, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The sole attestation of an -a- vowel in the fourth syllable of ša-⸢na-ku⸣-uk-kal-la-an at KBo 19.142 ii 18’ may be due to a dictation mistake, but could also indicate that the vowel was phonologically a schwa whose phonetic lip rounding adjacent to the labiovelar was undone by the scribe.
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1.1.4Meaning
For the contexts in lists of plant names, see HEG Š:810 and CHD Š:158. The determinative SAR leaves no doubt that šānak(k)ukkulla- represents yet another plant name. HHw:142 suggests ‘pumpkin (?)’ for unknown reasons; Ünal 2007a:599 specifies it as a bulbous plant, based on his understanding of 
kug(g)ulla- as a bulbous object, but see under Lemma.
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1.1.5Stem
The discussion whether the šānak(k)ukkulla- consists of one or two words was, in spite of the space after šāna, decided in favor of the former option on account of the spelling with -ak- at KUB 51.18 obv. 16’ (see HEG Š:810 for references). However, it seems clear that we are dealing with a compound with kug(g)ulla- as its second member (HEG Š:810f., CHD Š:158, HED K:233, implicit Ünal 2007a:599). For speculative connections for the first member of compound, cf. HEG Š:810f.
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1.1.6Origin
The assumption underlying this lemma, i.e. that šānak(k)ukkulla- is a Luwian loan word, rests on the Hurrian provenance of the texts in which the word occurs, and more importantly, on the Luwian origin of kug(g)ulla-.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *gull-.