waskuwara/i-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3762
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
waskuwara/i-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of the lexeme is found in an omen text.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | wa-aš-ku-wa-ri-eš | KUB 43.8 iii 6a’ | (CTH 543, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word has either gone unmentioned in the literature, or, if mentioned, has remained untranslated (Riemschneider 2004a:150 and 152, Ünal 2007a:794). Based on the assumption that the reconstructed noun *waskuwa- ‘sin, offense’ is derived with the suffix -ra/i-, this would result in an adjective waškuwara/i- ‘sinful, offensive’ or the like. However, in the context, several physical conditions of a person are listed together with their divinatory interpretation. It is unclear how this should be reconciled with the meaning arrived at by means of the derivational history. Non liquet.
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1.1.5Stem
For a possible analysis of the stem formation of waškuwara/i-, see under Meaning.
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1.1.6Origin
A Luwian origin has not been proposed so far. While the Luwian base *wašku- seems to suggest a borrowing from that language, there is no contextual evidence that would further substantiate this interpretation; see under wašt(a)- and its derivatives.
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