ḫarpunašša/i-
‘(a type of bread or pastry)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3583
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
ḫarpunašša/i-
‘(a type of bread or pastry)’1.1.1Transmission
The assured attestations are found only in festival texts.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | [NINDAḫar-p]u-na-aš-ši-iš | KBo 64.163 iv 25’ | (CTH 678, NS) |
| acc. sg. | NINDAḫar-pu-na-aš-[ši-in] | KBo 54.150, 13’ | (CTH 678, NS) |
| [NINDAḫar-p]u-na-ši-in | KBo 64.163 iv 27’ | (CTH 678, NS) | |
| [NINDAḫa]r?-pu-na-aš!?-⸢ši⸣?-n(=) | KBo 26.129 iv 9’ | (CTH 370, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The reading [ḫa]r-pu-na-aš!-⸢ši⸣-n=a at KBo 26.129 iv 9’ follows HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:340. – The restoration of ḫar-pu-na-aš-[ši-in] at KBo 54.150, 13’ is based on the duplicate KBo 64.163 iv 27’ (see Neu 1977a:275, HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:340). – The attestation at KBo 26.129 iv 9’ is less than assured.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The first sign ḪAR can be read as ḫar (more frequent) or ḫur (less frequent).
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1.1.4Meaning
The determinative ninda identifies the lexeme as a word for a type of bread or pastry (HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:340, Neu 1977a:275. If NINDAḫarpunaššiš should be related to ḫarp(i)- ‘heap, pile, piling up, harvest’, it would denote a more specific kind of bread such as ‘(bread) of/for piling up/harvest’, but the fragmentary context is inconclusive, and the interpretation hence remains speculative. The ambiguous reading of the first sign adds to the uncertainty.Cf. also Hitt. NINDAḫarpana- listed in HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:337, contra the alleged stem NINDAḫarpanušša- as cited in HED H:181f.
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1.1.5Stem
NINDAḫarpunašša/i- appears to be transparent regarding the stem formation. The genitival suffix -ašša/i- is attached to a stem *ḫarpun- or directly to the infinitive *ḫarpuna, presupposing a verb derived from a root- with the shape *ḫarp-, which may or may not be identical with that of ḫarp(i)- ‘heap’.
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1.1.6Origin
As pointed out by Melchert (DCL:s.v.), the stem formation indicates a borrowing from Luwian, whereas the root is ambiguous regarding its origin.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. ḫarp(i)-.