ḫarašpawant-
‘(a type of bread)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3545
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
ḫarašpawant-
‘(a type of bread)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is found in festival texts and rituals with Hurrian background (from MS onwards). For further attestations, see HW 2nd ed.:375-377 and HED H:200f.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | NINDAḫar-aš-pa-u-an-za | KBo 64.53, 7’ | (CTH 670, NS) |
| acc. sg. | NINDAḫar-aš-pa-a-u-wa-an-ta-an-n(=) | KUB 45.47 iii 17’ | (CTH 494, MS) |
| nom. pl. | NINDAḫar-aš-pa-u-an-te-⸢eš⸣ | KBo 23.70 ii 16’ | (CTH 706, NS) |
| [NI]NDAḫar-za-pa-u-wa-an-t[e-eš] | Bo 8250, 6’ | (CTH 475, NS) | |
| acc. pl. | [NINDAḫ]ar-aš-pa-u-wa-an-du-uš | KBo 30.52 l. col. 8 | (CTH 670, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The singular spelling of the sibilant with -za- instead of -aš- confirms the cluster /rsp/ [rsv/f], for which see under Stem.
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1.1.4Meaning
The determinative and the use the referent of NINDAḫar(a)špawant- is put to in the state cult and rituals identifies it as a type of bread (for contexts, see HW 2nd ed.:375-377); cf. HW:61, Hoffner 1974a:154f., HEG A-K:171f., HHw:44, Hagenbuchner-Dresel 2002a:10 n. 49, HED H:200f., Ünal 2007a:176).
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1.1.5Stem
Building on Kronasser 1966a:222, who recognized the common base /harspa-/ in ḫar(a)špawant- and ḫaršupanni(ya)- ‘(a type of bread)’, Puhvel (HED H:200f.; similar Hoffner 1974a:155) interpreted -pa- as a diminutive suffix deriving *ḫarš- seen in Hitt. NINDAḫarši- ‘loaf’. According to him, *harspa- ‘loaflet’ was suffixed with -want-, with resulting ḫar(a)špawant- meaning either ‘having dumplings’ or ‘loaflet-like (bread)’. HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:377 accepted the former alternative.
A different approach is taken by Rieken 2023a, who interprets the spelling 〈-p-〉 as the representation of a labial fricative /v/ or /f/ which had developed as an allophone or /w/ next to /s/, and was then identified by the speakers of neighboring languages in the periphery with the /v/ or /f/ of their own languages. As a next step, ḫar(a)špa- [ḫarsv/fa-] (< */hars-wa-/ ‘loaf-like, round’ from ‘head-like (?)’; cf. Hitt. ḫaršar/n- ‘head’) was derived with -want- as generally assumed.Outdated since based on an erroneous reading, Sommer & Ehelolf 1924a:64.
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1.1.6Origin
So far, no Luwian origin has been proposed for NINDAḫar(a)špawant-, but the parallelism with ḫaršupanni(ya)- with the Luwian suffixes -ann(i)- and -i(ya)- and the occurrence in Kizzuwatnean festivals and rituals may point to a Luwian borrowing.
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