iunāḫi(t)-
‘capacity to walk’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 736
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
iunāḫi(t)-
‘capacity to walk’1.1.1Transmission
All attestations are found within the texts of the Kuwattalla tradition, from both MS and NS manuscripts.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. n. | ˹i-ú˺-na-ḫi-ša | KUB 35.20 rev. 11’ | (CTH 761, MS) |
| [i]-˹ú-na˺-a-ḫi-ša | KBo 29.10 ii 5’ | (CTH 760, MS?) | |
| i-ú-na-a-ḫi-ša | KUB 35.11 ii 10’ | (CTH 760, MS) | |
| i-ú-na-a-ḫi-ša | KUB 35.12 iii 3 | (CTH 762, MS) | |
| i-ú-na-ḫi-ša | KUB 32.10 obv. 10’ | (CTH 761, MS?) | |
| i-ú-na-ḫi-ša | KUB 35.43 iii 3’ | (CTH 761, NS) | |
| i-ú-na-ḫi-ša | KUB 35.45 ii 23 | (CTH 760, NS) | |
| i-ú-na-ḫi-ša | KUB 35.48 ii 17’ | (CTH 760, NS) | |
| ˹i-ú-na˺-[ḫi-ša] | KBo 29.14, 1’ | (CTH 763, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Attestations checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Melchert 1994a:239 assumes that i- in i-ú-na-(a-)ḫi-ša renders non-syllabic /y-/, probably because of its pre-vocalic position. However, its syllabic value may well have been maintained in order to mark the morphological boundary between root and suffix, thus rendering /iyunahisa/. The question must remain open until further evidence is found.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word always occurs in collocation with uwarannaḫi(t)- within lists of magically affected body parts or other bodily features, e.g., ALAM-ša mi-i-ša-an-za ḫa-aš-ša ḫal-ḫal-za-ni-in ú-wa-ra-an-na-ḫi-ša i-ú-na-ḫi-ša la-al-pí-in ku-wa-an-na-ni-in ma-aš-ša-na-al-li-in KASKAL-an KUB 35.45 ii 22–24 ‘figure, flesh (and) bones, ḫ., capacity to speak, capacity to walk, eyelash, (eyebrow), divine path’ (šalli aniur, CTH 761; cf. Starke 1985b: 152f.; for the meaning of uwarannaḫi(t)- ‘capacity to speak’, see under Lemma).
The meaning ‘capacity to go, to move’ was established in Hawkins, Morpurgo Davies & Neumann 1973a:47 n. 163, under the premise that the infinitive /iuna/ can function as the base of an /-ahi(d)-/ derivative. The semantics of this analysis are accepted in Starke 1990a:164, Poetto 1995b:31 n. 13, and Sasseville 2021a:350 (differently and now outdated Melchert 1989b:41 n. 28, id. Melchert 1993g:273: ‘mobile wealth’).
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1.1.5Stem
Otten 1953a:63 was the first scholar to recognize that iunāḫi(t)- contains the abstract suffix /-ahi(d)-/ (still recorded as “-ḫi-”), but the base of the derivative remains a matter of dispute. While Otten 1953a:63, Hawkins, Morpurgo Davies & Neumann 1973a:47 n. 163 and Neumann 1976a:41 consider a hypostasis of the infinitive form /iuna/, Starke 1993a:164 postulates the oblique stem of an abstract noun *i-u̯ar/i-un- together with a denominal verb (*iuni̯i-/)iunai̯i-, which functions as the base of iunāḫi(t)-. The intermediate verb is not necessary, as pointed out in Melchert 1993g:273, but there is no way to tell whether it is the unattested stem *iun- or the infinitive that underlies the derivation in -āḫi(t)- .
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For the lemma head see CLuw. ī-(di).