/kwittan/, kwa/i-i-ta-na
‘where’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3179
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/kwittan/, kwa/i-i-ta-na
‘where’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested three times in two parallel inscriptions from Cilicia, dating to the early 7th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /kwittan/ | kwa/i-ta-na | KARATEPE 1 (Hu.), §20 (Cilicia) |
| kwa/i-i-ta-na | KARATEPE 1 (Ho.), §20 (Cilicia) | ||
| KARATEPE 1 (Hu.), §34 (Cilicia) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is quite certain and rests on the interpretation of its cognate and synonym HLuw. /kwitta/ ‘where’. The additional /n/ has been identified as a variant by Carruba 1984a:66. There is no discernable difference either in spelling or semantics between the two forms.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this lexeme is quite clear from its contexts of attestation and was first suggested by Bossert 1949a:112 for the KARATEPE 1 bilingual inscription, where it translates Phoenician b-mqmm b-ʾš ‘in places in which’ in Hu. and Ho. §20 and just ʾš ‘where’ in Hu. §34 (for the latter see Bossert 1950-1951a:275, who assumes that it means ‘whereto’ in this context’). KARATEPE 1 Hu., §34 runs: CAPUT-ti-sa-wa/i+ra/i kwa/i-i-ta-na hwa/i-sà-i-ia “VIA”-wa/i-na (“PES2”)i-u-na, approx. /…-ttis=wa=di kwittan kwissai harwan iuna/, translating as ‘where a (noble)man fears to walk the road’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:53).
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1.1.5Stem
The adverb is a variant of HLuw. /kwitta/ ‘where’, as made clear by Carruba 1984a:66. The form with the final /n/ appears to be the younger variant of the older, shorter form, which represents the original nom./acc. sg. n. of the relative and interrogative pronoun, i.e. */kwit/. It was marked an adverb with the suffixation of /-a/, which prevented the dental from undergoing apocope.
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