*kuršammašša(/i)-
‘pertaining to separation, cutting off’
- Language
- Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 603
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (other transmission)
*kuršammašša(/i)-
‘pertaining to separation, cutting off’1.1.1Transmission
Reconstructed from an Anatolian toponym (located between Eskişehir und Afyonkarahisar by Forlanini 1996a) in Hittite inventory texts and in a courtcase (all NS).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | URUGur-ša-ma-aš-ša-aš | KBo 2.1 iii 43 | (CTH 509, NS) |
Akkadographic spelling:
| URUGur-ša-ma-aš-ša | KUB 17.35 ii 5’ | (CTH 525, NS) |
| KUB 17.35 ii 7’ | (CTH 525, NS) | |
| KUB 17.35 ii 9’ | (CTH 525, NS) | |
| ˹URUGur-ša˺-[ma-aš-ša] | KUB 17.35 ii 37’ | (CTH 525, NS) |
| URUGur-ša-am-ma-aš-ša | KBo 31.47 i 6’ | (CTH 297, NS) |
Attestations following Starke 1981a:150 n. 31, Starke 1990a:270 (cf. also del Monte & Tischler 1978a:226f.; HEG A-K:658; HED K:218) with additional data from Kryszeń forthcoming checked against the photos of the Konkordanz.
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1.1.3Meaning ‘pertaining to separation, cutting off’
Starke 1981a:150, Starke 1990a:270 (followed by CLL:112 and Ünal 2016a:962 [but cf. below], see also HEG A-K:658; cautiously HED K:218 [“perhaps”]) analyzed this toponym as a genitival adjective (*kuršammnašša/i-) of the noun *kuršamman- from the verb kuršā(i)- ‘to cut off, separate’. Originally (Starke 1981a:150) he identified the meaning of the noun as ‘das Abgetrennte’ (sc. territory), which he modified later (Starke 1990a:270) for ‘Abtrennung’ (this was followed by Melchert and Ünal), whereby the second solution is the fitting one from a Luwian morphological point of view (cf. Melchert 2003b:197). Although, contra Starke, the Luwian base verb is not attested yet (see s.v.), this etymology is plausible both semantically and morphologically (cf. also the Luwian words from *kur-s-, a derivative of the verb ´to cut´), but note that the geminated -mm- which is essential to this derivation (in order to exclude the alternative, i.e. via the deverbal suffix -ma/i-) is attested only in KBo 31.47 i 6’, which was not mentioned by Starke, Melchert, or Puhvel. There is no evidence for the meaning ‘ruined city?’ suggested by Ünal 2007a:371, Ünal 2016a:299.
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1.1.4Origin
Unanimously treated as a Luwian word (see the literature under Meaning). Although the verbal stem in Starke’s etymology (cf. under Meaning) is not attested yet, the Luwian suffixes clearly show that we are dealing with a Luwian word.
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