armann(i)-
‘lunula, crescent moon’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3228
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
armann(i)-
‘lunula, crescent moon’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in inventory texts (CTH 243, 504), in an oracle text (CTH 572), in the KI.LAM festival, in the festival text for Ḫuwaššanna, in the witaššiya-festival, in the winter festival for the Sun-goddess of Arinna and the prayer of Arnuwandas I. and Ašmunikkal to the Sun-goddess of Arinna (CTH 375), and as a bread name in the month festival (CTH 591).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | ar-ma-an-ni-eš | KUB 42.43 obv. 5’ | (CTH 243, NS) |
| ar-ma-an-ni-iš | KUB 22.37 rev. 4’ | (CTH 572, NS) | |
| KUB 42.78 ii 4’ | (CTH 504, NS) | ||
| KUB 42.78 ii 15’ | (CTH 504, NS) | ||
| KUB 42.78 ii 16’ | (CTH 504, NS) | ||
| NINDAar-ma-an-ni-iš-š(=) | KUB 2.13 i 15 | (CTH 591, NS) | |
| NINDAar-ma-an-ni-iš | KUB 2.13 i 54 | (CTH 591, NS) | |
| NINDAar-ma-an-ni-iš-[š(=) | KUB 56.45 i 12’ | (CTH 591, NS) | |
| NINDAar-ma-˹an˺[-ni-iš | KBo 24.21 i 7’ | (CTH 627, NS) | |
| acc. sg. | [NINDAar-m]a-an-ni-in | KUB 56.45 i 18’ | (CTH 591, NS) |
| nom. pl. (Hitt.) | ar-ma-an-ni-iš | KBo 10.23 iv 6 | (CTH 627, NS) |
| acc. pl. (Hitt.) | ar-ma-an-ni-uš-š(=) | KUB 17.21 ii 14 | (CTH 375, MS) |
| KUB 17.21 iii 22 | (CTH 375, MS) | ||
| stem form (?) | ar-ma-[an-ni(-) | KBo 18.170 obv. 2’ | (CTH 243, NS) |
| ar-ma-a[n-ni(-) | KUB 2.1 iii 17’ | (CTH 504, NS) | |
| ar-ma-an-n[i(-) | KUB 50.1 iii 28’ | (CTH 573, MS) | |
| ar-ma-[a]n-n[i(-) | KBo 14.91 + KBo 29.106 rev.? 2’ | (CTH 694, MS) | |
| ar-ma-an-n[i(-) | KBo 49.104, 4’ | (CTH 598, LNS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
The armann(i)- (Sum. U4.SAKAR) is a moon-shaped object made of metal like gold or silver and it is also used to denote a type of bread (HW 2nd ed. A:324-326 and Hoffner 1974a:152 with further literature “Lunula, das Halbmondförmige”, Košak 1978a and Košak 1982a:209 “lunula, crescent”, Starke 1990a:107 “Hörnchen-Brot”, CLL:28 “lunula, moon-shaped emblem/loaf”, Klinger 1996a:549 “Hörnchen”, Müller-Karpe 2021a:3-9 “Mondsichel”).
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1.1.5Stem
The Luwian word armann(i)- c. is derived from the substantive *arma- c. ‘moon’ with the suffix -ann(i)-, which has a diminutive function when the derivational base is a noun.Contra Melchert 1994a:259f., the suffix -ann(i)- does not only have a diminutive function, but it can also built individual nouns whenever it is attached to an adjective.
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1.1.6Derivatives
1.1.7Origin
A Luwian origin of this noun has not always been clearly assumed in the literature (taken as genuinely Hittite in HW 2nd ed. A:324-326, HED A:152, HEG A:62). Melchert (CLL:28, Melchert 2005a:449) has it listed as Luwian pointing out the suffix -ann(i)-. Indeed, the suffix -ann(i)-, if from *-é-no- (with Čop’s Law, see Sasseville 2017a:136), surely matches the Hittite adjectival suffix -ēna- (contra Melchert 2002e:297) and thus betrays the Luwian origin of the noun.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *arma-.