p/wulāšina-
‘bread’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 329
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
p/wulāšina-
‘bread’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a festival for the Palaic pantheon preserved on Old/Middle and New Hittite tablets.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | wuú-la-ši-na-aš | KUB 35.165 obv. 13’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| wuú-la-ši-na-aš | KUB 35.165 obv. 14’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| wuú-l[a-]˹a˺-ši-na-aš | KUB 35.165 obv. 15’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| wuú-la-ši-na-aš | KUB 35.165 obv. 18’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| wuú-la-ši-na-aš | KUB 35.165 obv. 19’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| wuú-la-ši-na-a[š] | KUB 35.165 obv. 20’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| wuú-la-š[i-na-aš] | KUB 32.17, 6’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| wuú-la-ši-n[a-aš] | KUB 32.17, 10’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| [wu]ú˹-la˺-a-ši[-na-aš] | KBo 19.151 obv. 8’ | (CTH 751, NS) | |
| pu-u-[la-š]i-na-aš | KBo 19.157 12’ |
(CTH 750, NS) |
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| nom./acc. coll. | wuú-la-a-ši-na | KUB 35.165 obv. 8’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| wuú-la-a-ši-na | IBoT 2.36 obv. 5 | (CTH 751, NS) | |
| pu-la-a-ši-n[a] | KUB 35.165 obv. 5 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
For the grammatical assignment of all attestations of wuú-la-ši-na-aš as nominative singular see under Meaning. Contra Carruba 1970a:79, the ending -a in wuú-la-a-ši-na (KUB 35.165 obv. 8’, IBoT 2.36 obv. 5) is not the locative ending, but rather nom./acc. collective. Moreover, the enclitic particle =anta does not mean ‘in’; see under lemma.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs of the Konkordanz. For the attestation KUB 35.165 obv. 15’, there is definitely a sign <a> before the sign <ši> (with Carruba 1970a:15, differently Carruba 1972a:12) and traces of the beginning of the sign <la> can be seen on the photograph of the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
Laroche 1955a:74-78 offers a contextual interpretation of the lexeme p/wulāšina- in KUB 35.165. As shown by his analysis, it designates something that the god Ziparwa is invited to eat. Furthermore, there are different kinds of p/wulāšina- that lie on the table. In two cases, it is modified by wišta-, which Laroche compares to Hitt. NINDA wištaš (a kind of bread). Therefore, Laroche conludes that Pal. p/wulāšina- equates the logogram NINDA ‘bread’ and he assumes a loanword from Hattic pu/wulašne ‘bread’ (followed by Kammenhuber 1955b:364 n. 1, Carruba 1970a:79, Starke 1990a:73). Differently, Eichner 2010a:46 interprets wuú-la-ši-na-aš as dative/locative plural (likewise Carruba 1972a:29, Kammenhuber 1959a:18) and suggests that Pal. p/wulāšina- means ‘cake base’ (NHG. Tortenboden), thus referring to the place, where the wišta-(bread) lies. Based on the comparison between Hitt. NINDA wištaš and Pal. wištaš p/wulāšinaš, it is simpler to stay with the meaning ‘bread’ for p/wulāšinaš. It is also more economical to posit that the priest is simply describing the different types of bread lying on the table for the deity, rather than adding a description of the layers of a pastry.
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1.1.5Derivatives
1.1.6Origin
The Palaic lexeme p/wulāšina- is borrowed from Hattic p/wulašne ‘bread’ (Laroche 1955a:74-78, Kammenhuber 1959a:20, Carruba 1970a:79, Soysal 2004b:149, HEG W-Z:762). The “vowel subscript” after the sign <wa>, i.e. <wuú> and the vacillation between <wuú> and <pu> have been taken as further indications for a Hattic origin (Kammenhuber 1955b:364 n. 1), which has however become questionable as a criterion.
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