kuwāit
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 653
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
kuwāit
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in the festival text with Palaic incantations and in the Old Hittite ritual for the disappearing deity.
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1.1.2Forms
| unknown | ku-wa-a-it | KUB 35.163 ii 17 | (CTH 753, NS) |
| ku-w[a-i]t[(-) | KUB 35.168 i 8’ | (CTH 752, OS) |
1.1.3Meaning
Kammenhuber 1959a:51 suggests that kuwāit contains the pronominal root kwa-, but cannot offer any meaning (followed by Carruba 1970a:61). Based on the current state of research, no semantics nor etymology can be securely assigned.
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