parnaw(a)iške/a-(mi)
‘to make into the property of the royal house’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3894
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
parnaw(a)iške/a-(mi)
‘to make into the property of the royal house’1.1.1Transmission
The attestations are limited to New Hittite texts, viz. the “Apology” of Ḫattušili and a letter by queen Puduḫepa.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. act. ind. impf. | pár-na-wa-iš-ke-et | KUB 1.1 iv 63 | (CTH 81, NS) |
| pár-na-ú-i-iš-ke-[et] | KUB 1.8, 40 | (CTH 81, NS) | |
| pár-na-⸢ú⸣-[ | KBo 3.6 iv 24 | (CTH 81, NS) | |
| 3pl. act. impv. impf. | pár-na-wi5-iš-kán-du | KUB 21.38 obv. 20 | (CTH 176, NS) |
The assignment of the broken form pár-na-⸢ú⸣-wa-x[ at KUB 60.60 r. col. 10’ (reading after Groddek 2006a:61) must remain unclear. It may represent the nominal base of the verb or the non-imperfective stem *parnawā(i)-(mi).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
Throughout the course of the research history, the translations have varied between the purely architectural meaning ‘to build’ (e.g. Otten 1981a:97) and the social one ‘to make into the property of the royal house’, although the latter seems to have acquired more proponents (see CHD L-N:177, HEG P:487f. with the relevant references). In spite of the hesitations voiced by Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:310, both the contextual and the derivational analysis clearly point into this direction.
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1.1.5Stem
As already indicated in Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:310, the lexeme *parnawā(i)-(mi) represents a denominal verb derived from an adjective in -wa- ‘related to the household, being a household member’ vel sim. (social ranking/equative suffix), itself built from parn(a)- ‘house’. The derivation from the thematized Luwian stem (instead of the Hittite oblique stem parn-) explains the presence of a vowel before -wa- without additional cost.Outdated are Kronasser 1956a:186 (inherited verbal suffix *-wa-, similar Starke 1990a:537f.), HED PE, PI, PU:89: (“deadjectival of a *parnu-”); unnecessarily complex Tischler (HEG P:487f.), who assumes a hypostasis from *parnawar, gen. parnawaš, verbal noun of *parna(i)-.
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1.1.6Origin
Starke 1990a:537f. has so far been alone in claiming a Luwian origin for the base verb of parnawaiške/a- (parnawiške/a-). Although his suffixal analysis cannot be upheld, the derivational chain (see under Stem), combined with the rare and late attestation as well as the isolation of *parnawa- within Hittite vis-à-vis its firm entrenchment in the Luwic languages rather confirm Starke’s linguistic assignment.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. parn(a)-.