duwanta

The attestation of the lexeme is limited to a single occurrence in a song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival.

[E.R.]

indecl.

du-wa-an-ta

KBo 4.11 rev. 55

(CTH 772, NS)

The analysis as presented below with two successive sentences in the 3sg. impv. act. renders the Laroche’s (DLL:110) assumption that duwanta is 3p. pret. act. of dūwa-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to place’ highly unlikely (skeptical also CLL:239, but without alternative).

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The word appears in a song incipit consisting of two sentences. The following bound transcription is composed based on its two attestations at KBo 4.11 rev. 54f. and KBo 30.167 iii 8’-10’: duššaniyallaš=mi aiattar pāiu anti=mi=tta duwanta wāšu paddu “The duššaniyalla-official shall give me the act (i.e., the charge to act?). He shall move nicely towards me (and) duwanta.” For the reading and analysis underlying anti=mi=tta, as well as for the translation, see under the lemma of anti (with references for previous attempts). In view of the homophony with the Hittite local adverb duwanta (HEG T:491, EDHIL:904; modifying the verb wēḫ-/waḫ-^(mi) ‘to turn’), the most likely interpretation for its Luwian match is also a local meaning. This is supported by the same semantic sphere assumed for CLuw. anti=mi ‘towards me’. Out of the two options, viz. a similar meaning of duwanta (‘into my direction’) or the opposite meaning (‘into a distance, away’), the latter is better compatible with that of the Hittite adverbs tūwa ‘far’ and tūwaz ‘from a distance’, which certainly belong to the same word family (HEG T:491, EDHIL:904; cf. also Melchert 2008b:206f.).The preservation of #dw- in the Ištanuwa dialect assumed below finds a parallel in duwayā-⁽ⁱ⁾. As a result, the second sentence can be understood as “he shall move nicely towards me (and) away (from me)”, referring to the movement involved in the act of bringing that is mentioned in the preceding sentence.

[E.R.]

The stem is a compound of CLuw. tūwā ‘far (?)’ and anta ‘in’ that generates a directional meaning in duwanta (for the function of anta as a directive marker in second members of adverbial compounds, see Boroday & Yakubovich 2018a:6f.).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. tūwā.