kuwāpna-

This lexeme is found in a festival text containing Palaic incantations.

[D.S.]

instr. sg.	ku-wa-ap-na-an-ti	CHDS 2.52 + KUB 35.159 ii 3’/4’	(CTH 753, NS)
unknown	[k]u?-wa-a-ap-na-a[n(-)	KUB 35.163 ii 23	(CTH 753, NS)

The passage kuwapnanti occurs in gives us the first attestation of the Palaic instrumental case -nti, i.e. GÍR-anti ‘with the knife’, kuwapnanti ‘with the kwapna’ and [ … -i]nti ‘with …’. These three endings are followed by the particle =kan, which modifies the semantics of the verb, e.g. [ … -i]nti=kan ginu=kat karšandu ‘They must cut off this leg here with the [ … ].’ (DBH 46/2.101 + CHDS 2.52 + KUB 35.159 ii 4’/7’/8’).

[D.S.]

The initial sign <ku> in [k]u^?-wa-a-ap-na-a[n(-) was left undeciphered by Carruba 1970a:29. The other attestation of the lexeme kwāpna- in CHDS 2.52 + KUB 35.159 ii 3’/4’, obtained recently though the discovery of a new join, brings evidence for the reading with <ku>. Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.

[D.S.]

The lexeme kuwāpna- designates a tool, with which the sacrificial animal’s leg is handled during dissection. It could be equated tentatively with GÍR-a- ‘knife’, occurring within the same context (CHDS 2.52 + KUB 35.159 ii 2’/3’). However, the fragmentary state of the passage hinders any certainty. Until further evidence surfaces, no semantic assignment will be provided.

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