la(ḫ)un(a)i-(di)
‘to wash away’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3391
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
la(ḫ)un(a)i-(di)
‘to wash away’1.1.1Transmission
All attestations are found in a single passage of the Puriyanni ritual.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. act. | la-ḫu-ni-i-ḫa | KUB 35.54 iii 37 | (CTH 758, MS) |
| part. nom. sg. c. | la-a-ú-na-i-mi-š(=) | KUB 35.54 iii 34 | (CTH 758, MS) |
| la-ú-⸢na-i⸣-[mi-š(=) ] | KUB 35.54 iii 32 | (CTH 758, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The loss of lenited -ḫ- before -u- and -w- seen in the participial forms is paralleled often enough to be secure; cf. Starke 1990a:572 n. 2136 and Melchert 1994a:258. From the modern point of view, it should be noted that the remaining labial phoneme is spelled with 〈ú〉 instead of 〈u〉, which would have been expected in the position after -ḫ- now lost. This may be an indication that the sound behind 〈ú〉 preserved its consonantal status, i.e. /lawnaim(m)is/.
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1.1.4Meaning
Following Meriggi 1957a:204, who equates CLuw. laḫun(a)i- with Hitt. lāḫu-(ḫi) ‘to pour’, DLL:61 considers ‘to pour’ also for the Luwian verb. The same interpretation is found in Starke 1990a:566, HEG L-N:5, and HED L:22f. In contrast, Melchert 1988b:218 n. 14 (Melchert 1994a:246, CLL:120) translates the verb as ‘to wash (away)’. In Melchert 2011a:127, he argues that “the verb is used of both the thing cleansed [‘pediment’] and the thing removed [‘evil word’]”, pointing to the same meaning in the CLuw. cognates ēlḫā(i)-(di) and elelḫa-(i). His conclusions are also acknowledged by Sasseville 2021a:231f. and EDHIL:512 (undecided HHw:90).
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1.1.5Stem
The stem allomorphy -i- (sg.) / -ai- (part.) assigns the lexeme to the -(a)i-(di) verb class. The base of the derivative must be the infinitive in -una of the root variant lāḫu- [la:γw-] (thus Melchert 2011a:127), in which case la(ḫ)un(a)i-(di) represents a hypostatic derivative, or the underlying oblique stem of the verbal noun in *-u(a)r/-un- (considered as an alternative by Sasseville 2021a:232).
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For the lemma head see CLuw. lūwa-(i).