papparkuwa-(ti)
‘to cleanse, purify’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 566
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
papparkuwa-
‘to cleanse, purify’1.1.1Transmission
Attested only twice in the same Luwian ritual (MS).
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | ˹pa˺-ap-pár-ku-wa-at-ti | KUB 35.103 ii 16’ | (CTH 766, MS) |
| [pa-ap-pár]-˹ku˺-wa-at-ti | KUB 35.103 ii 9’ | (CTH 766, MS) |
Attestations following CLL:165 (cf. also Laroche 1959a:79; HEG L-S:477; HED Pa:146) checked against the photo of the Konkordanz. Restoration follows Starke 1985b:222 (based on textual parallelism).
[Zs.S.]
1.1.3Meaning ‘to cleanse, purify’
There is a general and justified agreement regarding the meaning of this word based on the context and the assonance with Hittite parku(i)e/a-zi ‘to make clean’ (Laroche 1959a:79; Starke 1990a:569; CLL:165; Haas 2003a:252; HEG L-S:477, Tischler 2008a:134, Tischler 2016a:254; EDHIL:484, 638; Francia 2014a:11; Ünal 2016a:976; similarly HED Pa:146 [“lustrate”]).
[Zs.S.]
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
The Luwian verb papparkuwa-(ti) must be interpreted as a reduplicated formation based on a factitive in -a-(ti) (< *-eh2-), i.e. *parkuwa-(ti) (< *pErku̯eh2-), which would be derived from a non-attested noun *parkuwa- (< *pErku̯eh2-). For the morphological interpretation see Sasseville 2021a:29f. and for the reconstruction of the root see the lemma head PAnat. *porku̯-éi̯e/o- (?).
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