širiya-
‘(music instrument)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 559
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
širiya-
‘(music instrument)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a festival text for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | ši-˹ri˺-an | KUB 35.165 obv. 11 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word širiyan can be best interpreted as the direct object of parinat ‘he blew’. Therefore, širian must be some kind of musical instrument into which the person would blow. Differently, Eichner 2010a:45 takes širiyan as an adverb related to Hittite šēr ‘on, above’, CLuw. šarri ‘id.’. For the ending in -ian, he compares Hitt. pariyan ‘over’. This is formally possible, but Eichner’s analysis fails to result in a good translation for the sentence.
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1.1.5Origin
No etymology possible.
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