naduwant-
‘reedy’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 693
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
naduwant-
1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is attested twice in NS texts, once in an oracle fragment with a dream report and once the story of the “King of battle”.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | na-du-wa-an-za |
KUB 52.91 iii 3 | (CTH 582, NS) |
| nom. pl. c. | na-du-w[a-an-du-uš] | KBo 22.97, 5’ | (CTH 310, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The semantic interpretation of naduwant- as ‘reedy, having reed’ relies on the obvious relationship with Hitt. nāta- ‘reed’ and the base *nāt(i)- of CLuw. nātatta coll. ‘reed’, and its formation with the possessive -want- suffix (CHD L-N:421, HEG N:284, accepted in EDHIL:597, HED N:66, Ünal 2007a:477, Steer 2012-2013a:162-164, Maier 2013a:111-113). This is contextually confirmed by collocations with luliyaš ‘pond’ and Ú.SALḪI.A-uš ‘meadows’.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The nom. sg. in -wanz(a) follows the inflection of Hittite stems in -want-.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Origin
The nom. sg. in -wanz(a) is formally Hittite (therefore not listed in CLL), while the gloss wedge in KUB 52.91 iii 3 probably indicates at least some kind of association with Luw. *nāt(i)- or nātatta. Probably the word existed, or could at least be parsed, in either language. Contra Puhvel (HED N:67), there is no reason to assume that we are dealing with an Indo-Aryan loan word, since the form naduwant- can easily be derived from a root noun *nāt-, regularly enlarged as nāt(i)- by i-mutation (see under Reconstruction).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see PAnat. *nód-.