dannaš-

The sole attestation of the term occurs in a ritual fragment.

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nom./acc. pl.

NINDAta-an-na-ša

KBo 7.68 ii 7’

(CTH 764, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The determinative ninda, betrays tannaša as a designation for a type of bread, to be equated with ^NINDAdannaš- in Hittite transmission (Götze 1937a:494, Friedrich 1955a:46, DLL:90, Hoffner 1974a:185, Starke 1990a:107, CLL:204, HHw:164, Ünal 2007a:680, HEG T:99). The bread is part of a list of offerings presented to the deity, all characterized as wašhai(ya)- ‘pertaining to wašḫa-’. Based on etymological considerations with the PIE root *ten- ‘to stretch’, Starke 1990a:107 cautiously suggests a more specific meaning ‘pretzel’, which is followed by Melchert 1994a:237 (and in CLL:204).

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The form as attested, tannaša, points to a neuter s-stem noun (see Götze 1937a:494 n. 2), like its match in Hittite transmission (for references, see under Meaning).

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The majority of attestations is found in festival texts (mostly of Anatolian origin), but a number occur in rituals and cult inventories besides (all NS). The following sample illustrates all extant forms and spellings.

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nom./acc. sg.	NINDAdan-na-aš	KUB 2.8 i 18’, i 21’, i 23’ et al.	(CTH 617, NS)
	NINDA⸢da⸣-an-na-aš	KBo 30.53, 1’	(CTH 613, NS)
	⸢NINDA⸣da-an-na-aš	KBo 30.53, 4’	(CTH 613, NS)
	NINDAda-an-na-aš	KBo 30.53, 11’	(CTH 613, NS)
	NINDAta-an-na-aš	KUB 10.48 ii 13	(CTH 626, NS)
instr.	NINDAdan-na-ši-it	KUB 2.8 i 34’	(CTH 617, NS)
	NINDAdan-na-〈aš〉	KBo 64.155, 1’	(CTH 670, NS)

For further attestations, see Hoffner 1974a:185. – The forms ninda ta-an-na-za at KUB 9.28 i 23’ and ta-an-na-za ibid. iii 18’ in CTH 442 Ritual for the Pleiades (NS) look like an nt-stem nom. sg. or a-stem abl. The latter attestation occurs in a syntactically difficult context, and it is unclear whether tannaza belongs to the present lemma at all (for attempts to tackle the problem, see HEG T:100).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The spellings with initial dan- are much more frequent than those with da-an- or ta-an-.

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For the meaning, see under CLuw. ^NINDAdannaš-.

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The regular stem ends in -š- (first recognized by Götze 1937a:494 n. 2), in both Hittite and Cuneiform Luwian transmission.

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Friedrich 1955a:46 was the first to consider that ^NINDAdannaš- represents a Luwian loan word. Later, Starke 1990a:106f. argued in favor of this assumption pointing out that the a-vocalism in both root and suffix in combination with the geminate nasal (presumably resulting from Čop’s Law) form a word of typical Luwian shape. He suggests a connection with the PIE root *ten- ‘to stretch’ (NIL:690-694), which is possible but difficult to prove. In any case, he is followed by Melchert in CLL:204, Melchert 1994a:237 and Melchert 2005a:449 (neutral reference in HEG T:99; different Hoffner 1974a:185 “possibly Hattic”).

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