/annadawin/, SUB-na-tà-wa/i-na

The lexeme is a hapax legomenon occurring in an inscription of uncertain provenance, which is approximately dated to the 8th century BCE.

[I.Y.]

The logogram SUB normally corresponds to Luw. /annan/ ‘under’. In this instance, however, the interpretation **/annantawin/ would be incompatible with the use of the <tà> sign, which has the phonetic value /da/ (Rieken 2008b).  The more expected semi-logographic rendering of /annadawin/ would be **CUM-na-tà-wa/i-na. One can, however, hypothesize that the graphic similarity of the CUM and SUB signs contributed to the use of CUM = /anna/ instead of SUB = /annan/ in a fossilized compound.

[I.Y.]

According to Hawkins 2000a:562-563, SUB-na-tà-wa/i-na represents an acc. sg. nominal form meaning ‘subordinate’. This solution, implying the interpretation of SUB-na- as /annan/, is no longer acceptable after the demonstration that <tà> has the phonetic value /da/ (cf. above). The tentative interpretation proposed here is essentially based on the etymological analysis of SUB-na-tà-wa/i-na as a compound, literally “at the eye” and appears to be compatible with the available context. If the phonetic shape of /annadawin/ is correctly interpreted, it is possibly a compound of /anna/i/ ‘at’ and /taw(i)-/ ‘eye’. Compare Luw. /tawiyanni/ ‘against’, where the same lexemes are joined in the opposite order. Not that the same order of the etymological local adverb and noun is found in Lyc. ñtewẽ, even though this etymological compound must have been formed independently.

[I.Y.]

For the first memeber of the compound, see /anni/, and for second member of the compound, see HLuw. /taw(i)-/.