āšḫanuwant(i)-
‘bloody’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 675
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
āšḫanuwant(i)-
‘bloody’1.1.1Transmission
The word is found in the ritual of Zarpiya and in mythological part of a birth ritual, from the MH times.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | a-aš-ḫa-nu-wa-an-ti-iš | KUB 35.108, 15’ | (CTH 765, MS) |
| nom./acc. pl. n. | aš-ḫa-nu-wa-an-ta | KUB 9.31 ii 23 | (CTH 757, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The first attestation was checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Contra Otten 1953a:36 and Melchert 1994a:271, the form without -r- originates in the oblique -n- stem (see under Stem). Consequently, no deletion process is needed.
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1.1.4Meaning ‘bloody, blood-red, blood-stained’
It was Otten 1953a:35-41 who recognized the meaning first adducing the parallel between CLuw. dAnnarummienzi ašḫarnuwanta kuinzi waššantari (KUB 9.31 ii 22f.) and dInnarawantaš ... ēšḫarnuwanta kuiēš wešša<n>ta (HT 1 i 29’f.), both ‘the “Strong Deities”, who dress themselves in blood-red (clothing)’ as well as that between āšḫanuwantiš dU.GUR (KUB 35.108, 15’) and išharnuwanda<n> dU.GUR (KUB 35.145 ii 3’). This is generally accepted, see Starke 1990a:557, CLL:35, EDHIL:260 and elsewhere.
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1.1.5Stem
As Kronasser 1956a:127, 211 before him, Starke 1990a:557 analyzed the word as containing the possessive suffix -want(i)-. In addition, Starke correctly identified the oblique stem of āšḫar/n- ‘blood, blood-deed’ as its base word (rather than a participle of a -nu- verb āšḫa(r)nu- with loss of -r-, thus Otten 1953a:36-40). Cf., more recently, Maier 2013a: 62f., 203f. with references.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. āšḫar/n-.