duwan(i)-

Only a single attestation of the lexeme is known to date. It is found in a song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival.

[E.R.]

abl./instr. (?)

du-wa-na-ti

KUB 35.139 i 17

(CTH 773, MS)

The word has either remained unanalyzed (DLL:101, CLL:239, HHw:183) or has been interpreted as 3sg. pres. act. of a verb (Yakubovich 2017d). For the present analysis, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

No translation is offered in either DLL:100, CLL:239, HHw:183, or Yakubovich 2017d. In accordance with the general interpretation of the passage that is presented under the lemmata of CLuw. tapāla and CLuw. tūwā, duwanati could represent an abl./instr. of a noun duwan(i)- meaning ‘from the / a distance (?)’. The word would refer to the rain to be released from the distant storm-clouds. This interpretation is necessarily highly speculative, and the word therefore remains untranslated here in order to mark the uncertainty regarding its semantic content appropriately.The verbal interpretation in the provisional annotation of Yakubovich 2017d, which is probably based on the sentence-final position of duwanati, does not lead to an understanding of the context, so far as one can see.

[E.R.]

Under the assumption that duwan(i)- means ‘distance (?)’, it can be segmented as adverb tūwā ‘in the distance, far away (?)’ ( → adjective *duwana/i- ‘distant (?)’) → substantivization duwan(i)- ‘distance’.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. tūwā.