dudummani-(ti)
‘to have mercy on (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3460
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
dudummani-(ti)
‘to have mercy on (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The verb occurs only once in a song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| 2pl. impv. act. | du-du-ma-ni-⸢ta⸣-an | KBo 4.11 rev. 44’ | (CTH 772, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – For the reading -ta- instead of -ša- (still preferred by Starke 1985b:341), see Eichner 1993a:107 n. 50, followed by CLL:238 and Sasseville 2021a:146.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
CLuw. dudummanitan constitutes the last word (and hence very likely the verb) of a song incipit fraught with unsolved problems in syntactical and lexical respects. Therefore, its interpretation must rely on its stem formation, which seems reasonably transparent. Following Eichner 1993a:107 n. 50 and Melchert (CLL:238), the lexeme belongs to the word family of Hitt. du(wa)ddu- ‘Have mercy!’. Eichner’s implausible analysis as a participle *du(d)dumi- derived with the verbal suffix -ani-(ti) was replaced by Sasseville 2021a:146 with that of a denominative verb in -i-(ti) based on the stem form *du(d)dum(ma)n- of an abstract noun with the meaning ‘mercy’. The resulting semantic interpretation ‘to have mercy on’ is found in Eichner 1993a:107 n. 50, CLL:238, HHw:183, HEG T:477, Sasseville 2021a:146 (no translation offered in DLL:100).
[E.R.]