manam(=)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 3350
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
manam(=)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation occurs in a ritual fragment containing a mythological passage.
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1.1.2Forms
| unknown | ma-na-am(=) | KUB 35.98, 5’ | (CTH 770, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The shapes of all signs except initial ma- are highly suspicious, but no good alternative to the reading of Starke 1985b:247 comes to mind.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Note the assimilation of the word-final nasal before =pa (contrastive conjunction).
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1.1.4Meaning
Although the context is hopelessly fragmented, the sequence ma-na-am-pa-t[a(-) has been analyzed as the variant manan of the conjunction mān ‘if’ (Yakubovich 2017d) or at least as containing mān ‘if’ (DLL:67, CLL:135), under the assumption that -pa-t[a represents a particle chain. However, the acc. sg. =an preceding =pa (thus DLL:67) runs counter to the fixed order of the particle slot. Non liquet.
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1.1.5Stem
If the interpretation referred to under Meaning is correct, the word belongs to the class of indeclinable particles.
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