anduwašša/i-

The sole attestation of this word in a Hittite fragment with many Luwianisms with presumably mythological content.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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KUB 60.59 was published only in 1990. Three years later, Melchert (in CLL:19, followed in HHw:17) considered a possible derivation from the Luwian match of Hitt. antu- ‘goods’, but cautiously refrained from offering a concrete semantic interpretation. Lately, Yakubovich 2017d proposed a tentative ‘inner (?)’, also based on an assumed derivational relationship, viz. with CLuw. the preverb/adverb anda ‘in’ (for details, see under Stem); cf. also ibid. iv 5’ aḫarra- for a criticism of the provisional translation of Yakubovich 2017d as ‘outer (?)’. Though attractive, his hypothesis cannot yet be contextually proven.

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If Yakubovich’s interpretation is correct, then, like the substantivized *āḫḫuwa- ‘encircling ring’ (see āḫḫuwāḫḫuwa-) and ēr(ḫu)wa- ‘(the) interior (of a circle), own’ (see under the respective lemmata), *anduwa- must represent a substantivization of a derivative with the polar suffix -wa(/i)-. In analogy to *āḫḫuwa-, which is synchronically thought to be related to āḫḫa ‘away, forth, entirely’, it must also show the elision of the final vowel -a of the underlying adverb/preverb anda (for further parallels, see antarwīl(i)- and ānnunn(i)- ‘former state (?)’).

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