mannustarr(i)-
‘state of having fertility, potency, manliness (vel sim.)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 775
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
mannustarr(i)-
‘state of having fertility, potency, manliness (vel sim.)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is a hapax, attested attested in a small ritual fragment.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| gen. adj. of unknown case, gender and number | ma-an-nu-uš-tar-ra-aš-ša-a[n(-) | KBo 29.17 iii 5’ | (CTH 767, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Reading checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
No meaning is assigned in Starke 1990a:396-399 and CLL:139, but obviously, the lexeme is an abstract noun derived from mannu- (see Reconstruction), which is the designation of a desirable condition of fierce men (see s.v. mannu- under Meaning). Furthermore, it is mentioned together with another abstract noun with positive meaning (annarummaḫi(t)- n. ‘strength’) and the adjective for ‘long’ (text breaks off after the word), certainly within the phrase of ‘the long years’, which is also a desirable feature. Therefore, mannuštarr(i)- is probably also an abstract noun denoting a desirable state, and considering the obvious derivational relationship with mannu- ‘the fertile, potent, manly condition (vel sim.)’, everything points to ‘state of having fertility, potency, manliness (vel sim.)’.
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1.1.5Stem
The lexeme is an abstract noun in -štarr(i)- (Starke 1990a: 396-399; CLL:139).
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2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
Starke 1990a:396-399 correctly groups mannuštarr(i)- with other stems in -štarr(i)-, though assuming these words to be neuter stems in -štar-. Later, based on Neumann 1965b, Melchert 1994a:272 establishes a stem class in both Hieroglyphic and Cuneiform Luwian of common gender nouns -štarr(i)- /-s(t)r(i)-/ (and -šarr(i)-), to which Starke’s -štar- abstracts and other words belong. Melchert convincingly derives the suffix PAnat. *-sro- with epenthetical -t- (outdated historical accounts of the suffix in Neumann 1965b and Starke 1990a:48f.). Accordingly, mannuštarr(i)- is an (abstract) noun mannu- + -štarr(i)- (< *-sro-).
[E.R.]
For the base of the derivative see CLuw. mannu-.