šunnuttila
‘stuffed’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 809
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
šunnuttila
‘stuffed’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found on Old/Middle Hittite tablets of the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. n | šu-un-nu-ut-ti-la | IBoT 2.35 obv. 9 | (CTH 751, MS) |
| šu-un-nu-ut-ti-la | KUB 35.165 obv. 8 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| [šu]-un-nu-ut-ti-la | KUB 35.165 obv. 6 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) | |
| [šu-u]n-nu-˹ut˺-ti-la | KUB 35.165 obv. 4 | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
Kammenhuber 1959a:14f. analyzes the lexeme šunnuttil- as a substantive derived from the verb šuna- ‘to fill’ and compares the suffix -ttil- n. with Hitt. -zil- n.; e.g. tāye/a-(mi) ‘to steal’ → tayazil- n ‘theft’. Therefore, she posits an action noun with the meaning ‘filling’ for šunnuttil- (followed by Carruba 1970a:70, Oettinger 1979a:356, Rieken 1999a:476f., Eichner 2010a:46). Although the etymological comparison of Kammenhuber is correct, the Palaic word šunnuttila does not have to be a substantive. On the contrary, the context demands an adjective modifying ‘bread’. If one compares the two following sentences:
a=anta [šu]nnuttila šuwānda lukīt (KUB 35.165 obv. 3-4)
‘They (scil. king and queen) broke the šunnuttila šuwānda (bread)’
a=anta wulāšina šunnuttila šuwānta tāzzunta (KUB 35.165 obv. 8-9)
‘They (scil. the gods) took the šunnuttila šuwānta bread’
In the first sentence, the substantive wulāšina has been left out, although the two epithets make it clear, which object is implied. From a morphological perspective, the word šunnuttila can be analyzed as an adjective in -il- (< *-í-lo-; cf. Rieken 2008a:247-249) derived from an abstract noun in -utti-, i.e. *šunnutti- ‘filling’. Thus, the adjective šunnuttila would mean ‘pertaining to filling (vel sim.)’. Since the participle šuwānta means ‘filled’, šunnuttila is here translated as ‘stuffed’, i.e. ‘stuffed and filled bread’. Melchert 1987b:24f. translates ‘outpouring, serving’, which is not supported by the context. Contra HEG S:1169, who analyzes šunnuttila as a substantive meaning ‘filling’.
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1.1.5Stem
Since we do not know, whether Palaic has syncopated the thematic vowel like Hittite -zzil- (< *-í-lo-), we will refrain from assigning the shape of the stem of šunnattila.
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For the derivational base see PAnat. *su-né-h3-/*su-n-h3-´(ḫi).