zanna/i-
‘this (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- pron
- ID
- 944
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
zanna/i-
‘this (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is a hapax attested in the incipit of a song within the Ištanuwa festival.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | za-an-ni-in | KBo 4.11, 43 | (CTH 772, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Attestation checked against photographs in the Konkordanz.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The form is used as an attribute or determiner of KASKAL-in ku-in ‘which path’. Eichner 1993a:107 n. 50 translates zanna/i- as a functional equivalent of the proximal demonstrative pronoun zā- ‘this’. Yakubovich (pers. comm.) tries to accommodate the suffix -anna/i- by slightly modifying the meaning, and tentatively suggests ‘such (?)’. Melchert 1993g:277 is undecided.
The sequence zannin KASKAL-in kuin is reminiscent of Hittite relative clauses introduced by a demonstrative pronoun + relative pronoun + head noun (e.g. kāš kuiš X-aš) ‘this X who’, in spite of the different word order. Together with the plausible derivational relationship to zā- ‘this’, this speaks for Eichner’s analysis. It must, however, be emphasized that the interpretation just given is far from assured and the form could well be an adjective instead.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
If the analysis under Meaning is correct, we are dealing with a stem based on the demonstrative pronoun zā- and ending in the suffix -anna/i-.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. zā-/zī-.