tūwā
‘in the distance, far away (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3268
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
tūwā
‘in the distance, far away (?)’1.1.1Transmission
Assured attestations of this lexeme are found only twice in a song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | tu-u-wa-a | KUB 35.139 iv 3 | (CTH 773, MS) |
| tu-u-wa | KUB 35.139 iv 8 | (CTH 773, MS) |
Several attestations of word-initial tū(wa)[ exist in the context of the relevant song incipits. They cannot be assigned with any certainty to tūwā itself or one of its derivatives. They are: t[u- KUB 35.139 iv 3, iv 14, tu-u-w[a(-) KUB 35.139 iv 11, tu-u-wa(-)[ KBo 7.67 iv 3’. – For the assignment of du-ú-wa-an to a separate lemma (contra CLL:239), see CLuw. dūwan.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
DLL:101 and CLL:239 do not offer a translation. However, in HHw:183, Tischler tentatively considers a connection with the numeral ‘2’ and glosses the word as ‘zweimal’ with a question mark. An alternative solution, albeit also mainly etymology-based, is at least vaguely supported by the context. Since KUB 35.139 mentions storm-clouds and a movement (āppan=du ḫuiḫuya[n- ‘they run behind him’), it may point to a denotation such as ‘in the distance, far away (?)’. That meaning is expected for tūwā, on account of the Hittite homophonous adverb tūwa ‘in the distance, far away’.
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1.1.5Stem
If the above interpretation is correct, the word represents an adverb and is synchronically uninflected.
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1.1.6Derivatives
1.1.7Origin
For a new etymological proposal, see under Meaning.
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