ḫāpinna/i-
‘stream, creek’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 357
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ḫāpinna/i-
‘stream, creek’1.1.1Transmission
Attested in Cuneiform Luwian ritual fragments both in MS and NS.
[Zs.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. c. | ⸢ḫa⸣-a-pí-⸢in⸣-ni-⸢in⸣[-za] | KBo 7.68 rev. iii 11’ | (CTH 764, NS) |
| ḫa-pí-in-ni-in-za | KUB 35.107 rev. iii 15’ | (CTH 764, MS) |
Sumerographic spelling:
| acc. pl. c. | ⸢íd.tur⸣MEŠ | KUB 35.89, 17’ | (CTH 766, MS) |
Attestations following CLL:55, checked against the photos of the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[A.B.], [Zs.S.]
1.1.3Meaning ‘stream, creek’
There is general agreement that the word means ‘little river, stream’ (Starke 1990a:62; CLL:55; EDHIL:294; Tischler 2008a:45, Tischler 2016a:69 [but with question mark, otherwise of unknown meaning]), but see Laroche 1959a:41 (without meaning) and Asan 1988a [2014a]:111 (an adjective; not included in Ünal 2016a). Setting aside the obvious assonance with the word ḫāpa/i- ‘river’, only Starke 1987a:251 with n. 32 seems to have provided any evidence for this meaning (not quoted by the others): he translates the phrase ÍDḪI.A-in-za ḫa-pí-in-ni-in-za (KUB 35.107 rev. iii 15’) as ‘Flüsse (und) Flüßchen’ comparing it with “ÍD : ÍD.TURMEŠ” in KUB 35.89, 16’-18’ (cf. Starke 1985b:228), which is, however, a completely different and barely understood text, and no such pair is attested there (cf. Yakubovich 2012a:329).
Nevertheless, the context of KUB 35.107 rev. iii 15’ points to this meaning, since the word appears in the list of the following topographical features (KUB 35. 107 iii 11’-15’, cf. Starke 1985b:238; Torri 2010a:387): x (za-ri-e-[), high mountains (alinza ḪUR.SAGḪI.A-tinza), deep sea? (alin alaššammin), y (]gataganan), roads (and) pa[ths] (KASKALḪI.A-wanza ḫar[uwanninza]), ÍDḪI.A-in-za ḫa-pí-in-ni-in-za. Although postnominal adjectives do occur in Luwian (Asan 1988a [2014a]:111 indeed translated it with an adjective), well understood cases show special circumstances (personal names and quantifiers as head nouns as well as the influence of foreign syntax, Bauer 2014a:225–235) that do not apply here. Accordingly, the parallel, but admittedly broken case of “roads (and) pa[ths]” and the general context rather point to a meaning ‘stream, creek’ (supported also by the etymology, i.e. a diminutive form from ḫāpa/i- ‘river’, Starke 1990a:62 and EDHIL:294). The remaining text (KBo 7.68 rev. iii 11’) is too fragmentary to be helpful.
[Zs.S.]