šaknuwant(i)-

The lexeme is found exclusively in the incantations of the Kuwatalla rituals, always in the same context.

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Outdated discussions of the morphological analysis in Otten 1953a:102 and Meriggi 1980a:339.

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Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz. For the reading in the badly damaged passages see Otten 1953a:102.

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The meaning of šaknuwant(i)- in Cuneiform Luwian context was recently elucidated by Hutter forthcoming:387f. incl. n. 27. The word, strongly reminiscent of Hitt. šaknuwant- ‘defiled, impure’, occurs in the description of a sheep that is presented to the Storm-god to be used in scape-goat fashion. Before, it had been led past the ritual client to take off his impurity. The animal is thus regarded as contaminated, and the attention of the Storm-god is drawn towards it, while the ritual client returns to a purified state. Therefore, the semantic interpretation as ‘defiled, impure’ fits the context of the contaminated sheep perfectly.Yakubovich apud Hutter 2019a:343 n. 27 translates šaknuwant(i)- as ‘fatty, oily’, obviously thinking of the positively connotated homograph Hitt. šaknuwant- ‘fatty, oily’, at a time when the sheep was still thought to be a sacrifice to the Sun-god. However, the interpretation has been corrected now and Hitt. šagan, šakn- ‘oil’ is cognate with Luw. dāin- instead, including its relational adjective dāini(ya)-.

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Parallel to its Hittite cognate, CLuw. šaknuwant(i)- is a possessive -want(i)- adjective based on the oblique stem of *šakkar/šakn-.

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HEG Š:727f., EDHIL:699f., CHD Š:47f., HW (2nd ed.):176, Tischler 2008a:139, HED:42, Ünal 2007a:584.

For the lemma head see PAnat. *sók-r̥/n-.

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