/sun(n)i-(ti)/, (“*69”)su-ni-
‘to pour’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 816
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/sun(n)i-(ti)/, (“*69”)su-ni-
‘to pour’1.1.1Transmission
Attested two times, this lexeme can be found in two inscriptions from Karkamiš, whose dating remains unclear.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. ind. act. | /sun(n)ihha/ | su-ni-ha | KARKAMIŠ A17c, §5 (Karkamiš) |
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | /sun(n)inta/ | (“*69”)su-ni-ta | YUNUS, §3 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The spelling of the forms permits a reasonably secure interpretation of the phonology, as does the fact that the word has a partial cognate in CLuw. *šunn(a)- ‘to fill’ and is a member of the word family around the HLuw. adjective /su-/ ‘complete, full’.
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1.1.4Meaning
As the context in KARKAMIŠ A17c is extremely fragmented, the semantic interpretation of the present lexeme relies mostly on the YUNUS context and its morphological link to /su-/ ‘full, complete’ and CLuw. *šunn(a)- ‘to fill’, Hittite šunniye/a-(mi) ‘to pour; to spill’ and related words. Cf. Peker 2014a:192 who translates it contextually as ‘to libate’.
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1.1.5Stem
The verb seems to show the suffix /-i-(ti)/, well-known from other verbs (Sasseville 2021a); alternatively, it may constitute a verb in /-i(ya)-(di)/, although that is less likely for it not being a root formation. It appears to be a further derivation from an earlier n-infix verb, which is still visible in CLuw. šunnuwant(i)-. Sasseville 2021a:540 follows the theory that the gemination of /n/ to /nn/ belongs to the plural forms of the verb, from where it has, in CLuw., spread through the paradigm by levelling; whether or not this was also the case for HLuw. cannot be ascertained on the basis of the HLuw. spelling.
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1.2 Hittite
šunniye/a-(mi)
‘to fill’1.2.1Literature / Comments
HEG S:1166-1172
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘to fill, to pour’
The equation of HLuw. /sun(n)i-(ti)/ ‘to pour’ with Hitt. šunniye/a-(mi) ‘to fill’ leads to the reconstruction of a Proto-Anatolian pre-form *sunh3-i̯é/ó- derived from the nasal infix formation *su-né-h3-/*su-n-h3-´ (Hitt. šunna-/šunn-(ḫi), Pal. šūna-). The derivation in *-i̯é/ó- is usually considered to be late since the suffix is seen as productive e.g. in New Hittite (thus Oettinger 1979a:159), but its existence in two independent Anatolian languages speaks for an early creation.
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For the derivational base see PAnat. *su-né-h3-/*su-n-h3-´.