nānašri(ya)-
‘related to a sister’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3858
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
nānašri(ya)-
‘related to a sister’1.1.1Transmission
All attestations of the adjective are found in the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom/acc. sg. n. | nin-an | KUB 35.21 obv. 9’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| KUB 35.43 ii 6 | (CTH 761, NS) | ||
| ⸢nin-an⸣ | KBo 29.36 l. col. 2’ | (CTH 763, MS) | |
| ninḪI.A-an | KBo 29.58 r. col. 7’ | (CTH 762, NS) | |
| nin-ia-an | KUB 35.45 ii 2 | (CTH 760, NS) | |
| ⸢nin-ia-an⸣ | KBo 29.11 ii 9’’ | (CTH 760, N/A) | |
| [nin-i]a-an | KUB 35.49 i 7’ | (CTH 761, MS) | |
| nom./acc. pl. n. | na-a-na-aš-ri-[e-ia] | KUB 9.6 i 29 | (CTH 759, LNS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.*
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
Attested in collocation with nāni(ya)- ‘related to the brother, fraternal’, the elucidation of the semantics and morphology of nānašri(ya)- ‘related to a sister’ have run entirely parallel to that of nāni(ya)-.
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1.1.5Stem
As demonstrated by Carruba 1982a:35-38 and Melchert 1990a:199f., nānašri(ya)- represents an -i(ya)- adjective. The element preceding -i(ya)-, viz. -(a)šr(i)-, functions synchronically as a motion suffix, but probably goes back to the word for ‘woman’ (CLuw. *ašr(i)-; cf. Hitt. -ššara-), so that the formation originates in a compound (since Starke 1990a:170, building on Szemerényi 1977a:37; more recently Oettinger 2013-2014a:152 and Steer 2015a:45).
[E.R.]
*The forms in the table were checked together with Marian Wehrstein.
For the lemma head see CLuw. *nān(i)-.