/musnuwant(i)-/, mu-sa-nu-wa/i-ti-
‘lavishly providing’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 323
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/musnuwant(i)-/, mu-sa-nu-wa/i-ti-
‘lavishly providing’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription dated to the end of the 9th century BCE. during the reign of Halparuntiya.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | /musnuwantis/ | (“PANIS.SCUTELLA”)mu-sa?-nu-wa/i-ti-sá | MARAŞ 1, §1i (Maraş) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The second sign of the word was read as <s> by Meriggi 1967b:130, but as <hi> by Hawkins 1980a:142 (withdrawn in Hawkins 2000a:264). Melchert (Melchert 1988b:226f.) provides linguistic evidence in favor of the reading <sa>. For the interpretation of the sign L.422 see Melchert 1988b:226f., Marazzi 1990b:262, Marazzi 1998a:117, Hawkins 2000a:264.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘causing to eat one’s fill, lavishly providing, satisfying’
Melchert 1988b:226f. analyzes convincingly mu-sa?-nu-wa/i-ti-sá as a lexicalized participle in /-ant(i)-/ derived from the causative form of the verb *mus- (cf. Pal. mūš-/muš- ‘to satiate one’s hunger’) and assigns the semantics ‘causing to eat one’s fill, lavishly providing’. The adjective /musnuwant(i)-/ is used as a royal epithet of the ruler Halparuntiya in MARAŞ 1, §1i. Following this interpretation, Halparuntiya is boasting that he causes his subjects to be well-fed. This persuasive semantic interpretation is taken over by Hawkins 2000a:264 and Payne 2012a:53, who translate it as ‘satisfying(?)’.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base of the causative formation see PAnat. *meu̯s-.