kuwanzuni-(ti)
‘to be heavy with (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 4112
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
kuwanzuni-(ti)
‘to be heavy with (?)’1.1.1Transmission
Both attestations of the verb are found in rituals of the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. impv. act. | ku-un-zu-ni-in-du | KBo 29.6 obv. 28’ | (CTH 763, NS) |
| part. nom./acc. sg. n. | ku-wa-an-zu-ni-im-ma-an | KUB 35.15 iii! 5’ | (CTH 762, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.3.13.1 Phonological Interpretation
For the syncope of -wa- > -u-, see Melchert 1994a:276.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘to be heavy, weighed down with (?)’
The assigned meaning of ku(wa)nzuni-(ti) is based on the apparent derivation from the adjective kuwanzu- ‘heavy, important’ (see Starke 1990a:253, 547 with n. 2027). The two cognate stems co-occur in an incantation of sympathetic analogy: za-a-pa ku-wa-ti-in wa-aš-ḫa-ša-u-ra ku-wa-an-z[u-wa] ⸢a-at⸣-[ta …] ku-un-zu-ni-in-du ma-al-ḫa-⸢aš-ša⸣-aš-ši-iš [en-aš ...] dumuMEŠ-ti dumu.munusMEŠ-ti ḫa-am-⸢ša⸣-a-ti ḫa-am-[šu-uk-kal-la-a-ti] “may the ritual [patron and his wife] be gravid with sons, daughters, grand-children (and) great-g[rand-children]!” (KBo 29.6 i 27’-29’). This semantic interpretation found acceptance in CLL:115, HHw:88, and Sasseville 2021a:149 (not yet translated in DLL:59), and is certainly correct.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The participle in -imma/i- is diagnostic for a verbal stem in -i-(ti). Starke 1990a:253 assumes a derivation from kuwanzu- ‘heavy’ with the denominal suffix -(a)ni-(ti). This would be supported by the evidence for the allomorph -ni-(ti) as adduced by Rieken 2017b:245f. However, Sasseville 2021a:149 points out that in the case of kuwanzuni-(ti) an intermediary -n(i)- stem kuwanzun(i)- ‘heaviness’ (attested in the adj. gen. kuwanzunašsa/i-) constitutes the link between the underlying adjective and the verb.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. kuwanzu-.