šunnuwant(i)-

The sole attestation of this word comes from a MS copy of an OH festival text with mixed Palaic and Luwian passages.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.

[E.R.]

Although the context is fragmentary, it is probable that the meaning of the lexeme is positively connotated and designates something desirable or describes a desirable state (cf. [hui]tumarša ibid. 13’). This is in agreement with the suspected etymological connection with other derivatives of šunn(a)- ‘to fill’, from which, following Starke 1990a:521 and 554f., a verbal noun *sunnuwar/sunnun- is derived and, being resegmented as *sunnuwa-, is used as the base of an -(a)nt(i)- adjective (for the secondary relationship between the verbal nouns in -war/-waš and the -wa-nt- adjectives in Hittite, see Oettinger 1988a; more specifically, for the parallel development in CLuw. šunnuwant(i)-, Oettinger 1988a:284 n. 57. The derivation from *sunnuwar/sunnun- is rejected by Melchert (CLL:297), but it seems that he misunderstood Starke’s and Oettinger’s hypothesis. Accordingly, the meaning would be ‘furnished with fillings’, which is equivalent to ‘filled, rich’ (accepted in HEG Š:1169).

[E.R.]

For the derivational chain that led to šunnuwant(i)-, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

For the base of the derivative see *su-né-h_3­-/*su-n-h₃-´^(ḫi).