parnalla/i-
‘of the house, of the estate’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3891
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
parnalla/i-
‘of the house, of the estate’1.1.1Transmission
The word is found only once in a New Hittite oracle report.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | pár-na-al-li-iš | KUB 5.6 iii 13 | (CTH 570, NS) |
The reading pár-na-al-la at KUB 25.27 i 18, modified from Alp 1940a:26 and generally accepted in the literature (e.g. CHD P:176f., HED PE, PI, PU:88f, HEG P:485), cannot possibly be correct. While word-final -la seems clear and -al- at least possible, the photograph does not show the strokes needed for pár-na- (rather -uš). However, no alternative reading can be offered here at this point.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The transparent stem formation, i.e. parn(a)- ‘house’ plus relational suffix -alla/i-, soon led to the interpretation as ‘of the house/estate’, sometimes with specification ‘of the (royal) house’ (HW:162, van Brock 1962a:107, Kronasser 1966a:21, Archi 1979b:88, CHD P:176f., HHw:124, Ünal 2007a:523, HEG P:485, HED PE, PI, PU:88f.).
The equation with dumu.é.gal-iš considered by Sommer & Falkenstein 1938a:112 n. 1 was generally rejected on account of the false reading lúMEŠ é.gal pár-na-al-la-aš (sic!) (following Alp 1940a:26). However, not only is lúMEŠ é.gal not identical with dumu.é.gal, but the reading cannot be upheld, either. Yet, there is also no positive argument for the equation.
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1.1.5Stem
For the analysis parn(a)- ‘house’ plus relational suffix -alla/i-, see under Meaning.
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1.1.6Origin
Although the base parn(a)- represents a genuinely Hittite word, the use of the adjectival suffix -alla/i- suggests a Luwian origin, as does the collocation with the DZawalli(ya)- deity, whose name probably originates in Luwian, too.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. parn(a)- .