/wanahha/, wa/i-na-ha
‘away’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3369
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/wanahha/, wa/i-na-ha
‘away’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in inscriptions from Hama and Malatya, dating from the late to the mid-9th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /wanahha/ | wa/i-na-ha | HAMA 4, §8 (Hama) |
| wa/i-na-ha | İSKENDERUN, §6 (Malatya) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is reasonably secure. Yakubovich 2012a:324-326 relates the HLuw. word to the Hittite phrase awan arḫa ‘away’, explaining also the common spelling and eventual omission of initial-a-final that results in the initial /a-/ being lost at least on the graphemic level (cf. also Melchert 2013a:305 on this issue).
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning ‘away (from)’ was first suggested by Yakubovich 2012a:324-326 based on a comparison with the Hittite phrase awan arḫa ‘away’; earlier scholars had left the word untranslated (cf. e.g. Hawkins 2000a:405, who notes that ARHA would be expected instead). It is borne out by the contexts of attestation, cf. e.g. HAMA 4, §8: za-ti-pa-wa/i-ta SOLIUM-sa-a kwa/i-i-sà (DEUS)pa-ha-la-ti-sà á-ma-za-ha á-lá/í-ma-za wa/i-na-ha “CAPERE”-ia, approx. /zatti=ba=wa=tta asa kwis Pahalattis amman=za=ha alaman=za wanahha laya/, meaning ‘(He) who takes away Ba’alat’s and my name(s) from this seat’ (cf. also Melchert 2013a:304).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The word is a compound consisting of the adverbs /wan/ and /ahha/ ‘away, back’, likely resulting from univerbation of an earlier collocation (Yakubovich 2012a:324-326). Melchert 2013a:307f. advocates against regarding it a Luwian combination, instead he suggests it to be a borrowing from Hittite at a time when it had already been univerbated there and was no longer analysed.Melchert argues that had the combination been analysable to Luwian scribes, at least some occurrences should have been spelt *〈(a)-wa/i-na ARHA〉, but none are.
[AH.B.]