ānnunn(i)-

The attestations of this word are limited to ritual texts of the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).

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dat./loc. pl.	[a-an-nu-un-n]a-an-za	KUB 35.16 i 10’	(CTH 760, NS)
	⸢a-a⸣-an-nu-un-na-an-za	KUB 35.21 rev. 12’	(CTH 761, MS)
	a-a-an-nu-un-[na-an-za]	KUB 35.22, 2’	(CTH 761, MS)
	a-an-n[u-un-na-an-za]	KUB 35.44, 8’	(CTH 761, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

CLuw. annunn(i)- remained for a long time without a semantic interpretation (Otten 1953a:88, DLL:28, CLL:19, HHw:18; Meriggi 1957a:206 n. 37 seems to consider it a synonym to waššin(i)-). Only Yakubovich 2017d translates the lexeme as ‘dear (vel sim.)’.

It occurs in the clause “the ritual patron, however, shall look upon his limbs in (their) ... state with life, strength ...”. The envisaged translation “in (their) ... state” is based on the position of ānnunnanza after its head noun apāššanza waššinanza ‘on his limbs’ typical for depictives (denoting a state temporarily overlapping with state of affairs described in the main verb of the clause). While the range of possible meanings remains too broad (‘healthy’, ‘complete’, ‘intact’, ‘former’ etc.) even for an educated guess only by context, an analysis of the stem formation provides the necessary information. Obviously, the stem ends in the individualizing suffix -ann(i)-, itself preceded by the polar suffix -wa(/i)-. The frequent syncope reduces them to -unn(i)- (cf. ^UZUkaldunn(i) ‘thigh^?’ and parallel -inn(i)- < *-iyann(i)- in ḫapinn(i)- ‘little river’, ^(LÚ/MUNUS)ānninniyam(i)- ‘cousin’, alinna/i- ‘foreign (?)’, šaltinnima/i- ‘?’, šūntinn(i)- ‘?’). For the base, three options are available: 1) ānn(i)- ‘mother’, 2) anna/i-, the demonstrative pronoun ‘that yonder’, underlying annalla/i- ‘old’, 3) ānnan ‘below, under, with’. The third option, ‘limbs in a lower state’ or even the concept ‘lower limbs’ is not compatible with the context, which demands a positive meaning and gives no hint that lower body parts are treated. The alternative ‘with’ within the third option, probably underlying Yakubovich’s translation ‘dear’ (in the sense of ‘own’?), encounters the problem that the depictive function expressed by postposition of annunn(i)- after the head noun does not conform with the meaning ‘own’, which is an inherent quality. The first and second options amount to the same idea, the restoration of an earlier and better state, a motif well-known from ritual texts. As there is general agreement that annalla/i- ‘old, former’ is not derived from ānn(i)- ‘mother’ (see under †annalla/i-), but from the pronoun, the same is assumed here for annunn(i)-, which accordingly means ‘former state’.

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The derivational chain suggested under Meaning, starts from anna/i- ‘that yonder’, in a first step derived with the polar formant -wa(/i)- (with deletion of the stem vowel of the base). Then it is suffixed with individualizing -ann(i)-, followed by contraction of -wa- to -u-. Thus, the stem belongs to the class of i-mutated nouns.

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For the lemma head see Luw. anna/i-.