šapana-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 451
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
šapana-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found once in a mythical scene of a ritual preserved on an Old Hittite tablet and perhaps also in an incantation fo the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | ša-pa-na-a-an | KUB 35.168, 7’ | (CTH 752, OS) |
| [ša?-]˹a˺-pa-na-an | KBo 19.152 iv! 4’ | (CTH 751, MS) |
The assignment of these two words to the same lexeme is tentative.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz. We owe the reading and restoration of [ša]-˹a˺-pa-na-an to S. Görke.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word šapanān is found in a fragmentary passage. It seems to be the head noun of the genitive ḫāranaš ‘eagle’. Carruba 1970a:69 (and Carruba 1972a:10) relates the word šapanān to Pal. šapawinai ‘he wipes off’ and translates it with ‘purification’, which does not contribute anything to the context. No semantic assignment is provided here.
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