wulašiniki-
‘bread-like, containing bread (vel sim.)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 330
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
wulašiniki-
‘bread-like, containing bread (vel sim.)’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. c. | wuú-la-ši-ne-k[i-eš] | KUB 35.165 obv. 12 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| wuú-la-ši-ni-ki-e[š] | KUB 35.165 obv. 17 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| wuú-l]a-ši-ni-ki-eš | KUB 35.165 obv. 24 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| w[uú-la-ši-ni-ki-eš] | KUB 32.17, 3’ | (CTH 751, MS?) | |
| wuú-la-ši-ni-ki!-eš | KUB 32.17, 10’ |
(CTH 751, MS?) |
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| [wuú-la-ši-n]i-ki-eš | KBo 19.151, 4’ | (CTH 751, NS) |
Pace Eichner 2010a:45-47, wuú-la-ši-ni-ki-eš is not a nominative plural in spite of the use of the sign <-eš>. It is clear from other examples such as nom. sg. c. pur-ta-ḫi-iš beside nom. sg. c. pur-ta-ḫi-eš, that this sign cannot be used as a decisive factor for the nominative plural; cf. Starke 1990a:74. This also occurs with Luwian words in Middle Hittite texts; cf. nom. sg. c. ša-pa-a-ša-al-li-iš (KUB 14.1 rev. 12’) beside nom. sg. c. ša-pa-a-ša-al-li-eš (KUB 14.1 rev. 16’), nom. sg. c. ḫa-an-ti-ti-ia-tal-li-eš (KUB 14.1 rev. 28’). The evidence for a nominative singular wuú-la-ši-ni-ki-eš is drawn especially from the verb kītar ‘lies’, which is a singular form. Pace Eichner 2010a:46, his necessity to assume a mismatch in numerus due to the lack of Palaic competence on the part of the Hittite scribe is ad hoc and does not favor his argumentation against a simpler interpretation of the passage.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word wuú-la-ši-ni-ki-eš has been analyzed as a derivative in /-igi-/ (Kammenhuber 1955b:374, Starke 1990a:74). Its derivational base is the Hattic loanword p/wulāšina- ‘bread’. The suffix /-igi-/ is an adjectival suffix with a relational or possessive function and, therefore, the meaning of wulašiniki- would be ‘bread-like’ or ‘containing bread’ (Kammenhuber 1959a:18, Carruba 1970a:79, Eichner 2010a:73f., Eichner 2010a:46). This can be further supported by the fact that wuú-la-ši-ni-ki-eš modifies šimiyāš refering to the food offering. The latter appears in a parallel sentence instead of p/wulāšina- ‘bread’ (with Starke 1990a:73f., contra Kammenhuber 1959a:18, Carruba 1972a:29, Eichner 2010a:46).
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1.1.5Stem
The adjectival suffix /-igi-/ shows a nominative singular in -iš, but a dative plural -aš. For ths reason, Starke 1990a:71-74 assumes a mutated suffix. However, this is not necessary, since the dative plural ending -aš can come from *-ayaš with loss of intervocalic glide.
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1.1.6Origin
This lexeme is a Palaic derivative of the Hattic loanword p/wulāšina-.
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