apanta
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 894
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
apanta
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested in the festival for the Palaic pantheon.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| unknown | a-pa-an-ta! | KUB 35.165 rev. 4’ | (CTH 751, OS or MS) |
| [a-p]a?-an-ta | KBo 53.301 iv 4’ | (CTH 751, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz. The word a-pa-an-ša in KUB 35.165 rev. 4’ is emended to a-pa-an-ta! based on the parallel version KBo 53.301 iv 4’.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The status of this lexeme is disputed. Kammenhuber 1959a:25 suggests that apanša represents the nominative singular of a stem in -nt- spelled exceptionally with 〈ša〉 instead of regular 〈za〉. Carruba 1970a:51 suggests a neuter singular form of the demonstrative pronoun apa-. Thank to the publication of the fragment KBo 53.301 and the new edition of the NS version offered in Sasseville 2019a:30f, the word can now be read as apanta, which could be analyzed as a participle of the verb ap- or as a particle chain, i.e. a=pa=anta. Since the context is fragmentary, no decision can be made.
[D.S.]