kūnuwa-(i)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3184
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
kūnuwa-(i)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested once in a NS ritual fragment from the Tauriša tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. act. | ku-ú-nu-wa-at-[ta] | KBo 29.28, 5 | (CTH 765, MS?) |
The restoration and morphological analysis follow CLL:109. In spite of Melchert’s cautious approach, the proposal should be considered highly plausible, since the putative verb is the last word of the paragraph and preceded by warḫatta, also a 3sg. pret. act., ibid. 4.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
No translation is offered in CLL:109 and HHw:84. Starke 1985b:157 plausibly reconstructs the word preceding ku-ú-nu-wa-at-[ta] as w]a-ar-ša ‘water’ (nom./acc. sg.), probably functioning as the object of the verb. If correct, a meaning ‘to pour’ (from PIE *g̑heu̯- ‘to pour’; cf. Lyd. u-(d)) would suit the context, but the very tentative nature of the idea must be kept in mind.
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1.1.5Stem
The structure of the lexeme suggests that the root kū- is followed by the transitivizing -nu(wa)-(i) suffix.
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