ḫaršupanni(ya)-
‘(a type of bread)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3546
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
ḫaršupanni(ya)-
‘(a type of bread)’1.1.1Transmission
The noun is found more than 20 times in rituals and festival texts with Hurrian background (from MS onwards).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | NINDAḫar-šu-pa-an-ni-i-iš | KBo 64.194 iv 19 | (CTH 790, NS) |
| acc. sg. | NINDAḫar-šu-pa-an-ni-⸢i⸣-[en] | KUB 25.50 ii 1 | (CTH 705, NS) |
| NINDAḫar-šu-pa-an-ni-i[š] | KUB 44.49 rev. 6’ | (CTH 628, NS) | |
| acc. pl. | NINDAḫar-šu-pa-an-ni-iš | KUB 32.103 ii 7’ | (CTH 474, NS) |
| NINDA⸢ḫar⸣-šu-pa-an-ni-iš | KBo 38.260 rev.? 9’ + KBo 21.37 rev.? 12’ | (CTH 479, MS) |
In several of the attestations cited for the accusative, the nom. sg. form seems to be used for the direct object, either as an inconsistent construction introducing a sentence-final transitive verb instead of an intended intransitive one or, more likely, using Hurrian ergative syntax.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Six out of the more than 20 attestations feature the plene spelled ending °i-i-iš.
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1.1.4Meaning
The determinative in NINDAḫaršupanni(ya)- and the occurrence in lists of breads show that, like assonant NINDAḫar(a)špawant-, it also represents a type of bread (for contexts, see HW 2nd ed.:377f.; cf. HW:61, Hoffner 1974a:157, HEG A-K:188, HHw:44, Hagenbuchner-Dresel 2002a:10 n. 49, HED H:200f., Ünal 2007a:187).
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1.1.5Stem
Based on *ḫaršupa- [ḫarsv/fa-] (< */hars-wa-/ ‘loaf-like, round’ from ‘head-like?’), a derivative was formed with the Luwian individualizing or diminutive suffix -ann(i)- plus the relational suffix -i(ya)- (see under NINDAḫar(a)špawant-).
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1.1.6Origin
The southern provenance of the texts containing the attestations as well as the use of the Luwian suffixes -ann(i)- and -i(ya)- speak for a borrowing from that language (Rieken 2023a:208).
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