nāni(ya)-

All attestations of the adjective are found in the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).

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nom/acc. sg. n.	šeš-an	KUB 35.21 obv. 9’	(CTH 761, MS)
	⸢šeš-an⸣	KBo 29.36 l. col. 2’	(CTH 763, MS)
	[še]š-an	KUB 35.43 ii 6	(CTH 761, NS)
	[šešḪI.A-a]n	KBo 29.58 r. col. 7’	(CTH 762, NS)
	⸢na⸣-a-ni-ia-an	KUB 35.51 ii? 26’	(CTH 760, NS)
	šeš-ia-an	KUB 35.45 ii 2	(CTH 760, NS)
	⸢šeš-ia-an⸣	KBo 29.11 ii 9’’	(CTH 760, N/A)
nom./acc. pl. n.	na-a-ni-e-ia	KUB 9.6 i 28	(CTH 759, LNS)
abl./instr.	na-a-ni-ia-t[i]	KBo 9.141 i 4’	(CTH 761, MS)

For the morphological analysis of the forms, see Carruba 1982a:35-38 and Melchert 1990a:199f. (correcting also the analysis of nānieya as dat./loc. sg. by Laroche 1958a:192f. and Starke 1990a:37).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.*

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Based on the parallel lists of multiple merisms in the rituals of the Kuwattalla tradition, Laroche 1958b:192f. (thus superseding Otten 1953a:105, still followed in HW:329, 425) recognized the semantic match in šeš-yan nin-yan and nānieya nānašrie[ya]. His erroneous morphological analysis of the forms as nouns was much later corrected by Carruba 1982a:35-38 (followed by Melchert 1990a:199f.), who demonstrated that they represent relational adjectives in -i(ya)-. Meanwhile, the improved derivational interpretation entered the handbooks (cf. Starke 1990a:37, CLL:155, HED N:107, HHw:110, EDHIL:601, Steer 2015a:44, Yakubovich & Mouton 2023b:414; DCL:s.v.; for the earlier analysis, see DLL:73, HW:425).

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For the recognition as -i(ya)- adjective, see under Meaning.

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1. The gloss wedge word na-ni-ti at KBo 43.61 + KUB 22.40+ rev. iii 30 (see under Lemma) could be connected with *nān(i)- ‘brother’. In this case, it would represent a causative formation ‘to let (someone) act in a brotherly manner’ in the sense of ‘to appease’ (the latter meaning already being considered in CHD L-N:395) parallel to the collocated verb gangatiti ‘he treats/purifies with the gangati plant’.

*The forms in the table were checked together with Marian Wehrstein.

For the lemma head see CLuw. *nān(i)-.