aranuwa-(i)
‘to confer ownership, accord’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3336
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
aranuwa-(i)
‘to confer ownership, accord’1.1.1Transmission
The verb occurs twice in a MS ritual fragment.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | a-ra-nu-wa-at-ta | KUB 35.79 iv? 5’ | (CTH 765, MS) |
| KUB 35.79 iv? 6’ | (CTH 765, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The fragmentary context does not provide any information about the meaning of the lexeme. Therefore, its semantic assignment is based entirely on the interpretation of the gloss wedge marked attestation of 
arannuwa-(i) in Hittite transmission (see under Lemma).
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
For the stem formation, see arannuwa-(i) in Hittite transmission.
[E.R.]
1.2 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
arannu(wa)-(i)
1.2.1Transmission
The gloss wedge marked word is found once in an edict of Ḫattušili III.
[E.R.]
1.2.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. ind. act. | a-ra-an-nu-uḫ-ḫa |
KBo 4.12 i 29 | (CTH 87, NS) |
1.2.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.2.3.1Phonological Interpretation
As an explanation for the regular allomorphy in the causative/factitive suffix, -nuwa- vs. -nnu- (Melchert 1997a:131), Sasseville 2021a:462 suggests that it is due to the need to retain the syllable weight, hence [Vn.u̯a] vs. [Vn.nu-].
[E.R.]
1.2.4Meaning
The only attestation of arannu(wa)-(i) is quite informative regarding its meaning: (27)... nu-uš-ma-aš-kán gal.dub.sarut-ta (28)ku-i-e-eš da-a-ma-uš ar-nu-uš-ke-er nu-uš-ma-ša-at ú-ul (29)a-ra-an-nu-uḫ-ha nu a-na gal.dub.sarut-ti (30)mur.maḫ.lú-in dumu mMi-id-danan-na-mu-u-wa ti-it-t[a-nu-nu-un] “Those others who were trying to obtain (i.e. to snatch) the office of Chief Scribe for themselves, to those I did not a. it. I insta[lled] Walwaziti, son of Middannamuwa, as chief scribe” (after Melchert 1999a:244). It is clear that those “others” did not get the office, because the majesty did not confer (arannuḫḫa) it to them. This semantic interpretation was submitted in HW 2nd ed. A:250 (containing also a long list of earlier, now outdated attempts including DLL:30 and HW:29, 330; likewise HEG A-K:53, HEG A, E, I:178, HHw:21, Ünal 2007a:48) and followed by Melchert 1999a:244f., Yakubovich 2017c:12 n. 12, and, with hesitation, by Sasseville 2021a:471f. It is also accepted here.
[E.R.]
1.2.5Stem
The verb is transparent regarding its stem suffix. Following HW:29, it ends in the -nu(wa)- formant for building causatives and factitives; cf. the literature cited under Meaning (most recently Sasseville 2021a:471f.).
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1.2.6Origin
The gloss wedge marking taken together with the Cuneiform Luwian match aranuwa-(i) (see under Lemma) proves the Luwian origin of the lexeme. It was already suspected by Götze 1925a:107 and has been accepted since.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. *ara.