Hittite Etymological Dictionary, Volume 7: Words beginning with N

170 Pages·2007·28.62 MB·English

by  Jaan Puhvel

Hittite Etymological Dictionary
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Trends in Linguistics
Documentation 26
Editors
Walter Bisang
Hans Henrich Hock
Werner Winter
(main editor for this volume)
Mouton de Gruyter
Berlin · New York
Hittite Etymological
Dictionary
Volume 7: Words beginning with N
by
Jaan Puhvel
Mouton de Gruyter
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Puhvel, Jaan.
Hittite etymological dictionary.
(Trends in linguistics. Documentation ; 1,)
Contents: v.l. Words beginning with A - v. 2. Words
beginning with E and I - v. 3. Words beginning with H - v. 4.
Words beginning with K - v. 5. Words beginning with L
Indices to volumes 1-5 - v. 6. Words beginning with M -
v. 7. Words beginning with N
1. Hittite language — Etymology - Dictionaries. I. Title.
II. Series: Trends in linguistics.
Documentation ; 1, etc.
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Preface
This volume burrows deeper into the second half of the Hittite lexical
corpus and completes the central triptych of moderate sized initials L,
M, N. No important practical changes have been introduced since M
(2004). Significant entries have been given thorough coverage. N also
includes many ill-integrated Hurrian ritual terms which are but rarely
grammaticalized as Hittite and are only tangentially part of the language;
these have been deemphasized accordingly (see s. v. nipas ri-).
Previous volumes have elicited a variety of reviews, many positively
enriching, some critically salubrious, others off the mark by failing to
deal with an etymological dictionary, seeking out rather matters of for-
mal detail or trivia of a technical nature. What is needed is some ap-
praisal of etymological yield (or shortage thereof) in the ancient Near
Eastern-Indo-European continuum, with linguistic, historical, and cul-
tural implications. The volume in hand has an adequate sampling of im-
portant lexemes (e. g. nah-, nai-, nakki-, nikna-, ninink-, nuntaram) being
assessed in novel ways. May it yet elicit such reaction EGiR-pa-\JO-ti\
Clausis quindecim lustris, the remainder of this task θεών εν γούνασι
κείται. By way of paralipsis "I won't even mention" the support and
indulgence of my wonderful immediate family. What I owe to the scholar-
ship of others is clear on every page, without a need for some variation
on the bromide "all responsibility for errors is my own" (buck-passing
in one-man shows being well-nigh impossible).
J. P.

Contents
Preface v
List of abbreviations ix
Dictionary 1
Corrections and additions to volumes 1-2 137
Corrections and additions to volumes 3 141
Corrections and additions to volumes 4 147
Corrections and additions to volumes 5 151
Corrections and additions to volumes 6 154
An eye on the second half 157

List of abbreviations (additional to volumes 1—6)
Christiansen, Ambazzi: Birgit Christiansen, Die Ritualtradition der Ambazzi
(StBoT 48) (Wiesbaden, 2006).
Cohen, Taboos: Yoram Cohen, Taboos and Prohibitions in Hittite Society. A Study
of the Hittite Expression natta ara ('not permitted') (Texte der Hethiter 24)
(Heidelberg, 2002).
Daddi, Vincolo: Franca Pecchioli Daddi, // vincolo per i governatori di provincia
(Studia Mediterranea 14. Series Hethaea 3) (Pavia, 2003).
Dardano, Tontafelkataloge: Paola Dardano, Die hethitischen Tontafelkataloge aus
Hauusa (CHT 276-282) (StBoT 47) (Wiesbaden, 2006).
Haas, MMMH: Volkert Haas, Materia magica et medico Hethitica (Berlin, 2003).
Laroche, Glossaire: Emmanuel Laroche, Glossaire de la langue hounite (Paris,
1978-9; previously quoted by page numbers in RHA 34-35 [1976-7]).
LIV: Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben2 (Wiesbaden, 2001).
Miller, Kizzuwatna Rituals: Jared L. Miller, Studies in the Origins, Development
and Interpretation of the Kizzuwatna Rituals (StBoT 46) (Wiesbaden, 2004).
Van Gessel, Onomasticon: B. H. L. Van Gessel, Onomasticon of the Hittite Pan-
theon l (1998), 2 (1998), 3 (2001) (Handbuch der Orientalistik 1: 33) (Leiden).