/parnawa-/, (“DOMUS.CRUX”)pa+ra/i-na-wa/i-

This lexeme is attested three times in inscriptions from Commagene, dating to the late 9^th or early 8^th century, and Cilicia, dating to the early 7^th century BCE.

[A.P.]

3pl. impv. act.	/parnawantu/	(CRUX)pa+ra/i-na-wa/i-tu-u	KARATEPE 1 (Hu.), §58 (Cilicia)
		(“DOMUS.CRUX”)pa+ra/i-na-wa/i-tu4	KARATEPE 1 (Ho.), §58 (Cilicia)
	/parnuwantu/	(“MANUS”)pa+ra/i-nu-wa/i-tu	ANCOZ 5, §1 (Commagene)

The attestation at ANCOZ 5, §1 shows a different vocalisation in the stem and may therefore constitute a separate verb. However, the context of attestation is too uncertain, and the word is hence included with the present lexeme for the time being.

[A.P.] [AH.B.]

The meaning was recognised by Bossert 1956b:51 in the context of the KARATEPE 1 bilingual inscription, where /parnawa-/ translates Phoenician yʿbd ‘may they serve’. Earlier attempts had considered a meaning ‘to build’ (e.g. Heubeck 1959a:45), but this is contextually inappropriate and has since been shown to be morphologically unlikely, cf. the discussion of the stem below. Thus, KARATEPE 1 (Hu.), §58 runs: ma-pa-wa/i (CRUX)pa+ra/i-na-wa/i-tu-u (LITUUS)á-za-ti-wa/i-tà-ia mu-ka-sa-sá-há-a DOMUS-ní-i (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ta-[ti] DEUS-na-ti-há, approx. /man=ba=wa parnawantu Azzattiwadaya Muksassan=ha parni Tarhuntadi massanadi=ha/, meaning ‘But much they shall be in service to the house of Azzatiwada and Mopsus by (the Storm-god) Tarhunt and the gods!’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:56).

[AH.B.]

This verb is likely a factitive in /-a-^(ti)/ (although /-a-^(di)/ cannot be excluded), deriving from the stem */parnawa(/i)-/ ‘equating to a house’ vel sim., which is unattested in HLuw., but has a cognate in Lycian prñnawa- ‘that which equates to a house, grave-house’, see Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:310 and Sasseville 2021a:50.

[AH.B.]

For the lemma head, see HLuw. /parn(a)-/.