Re: [tied] <pir>

Another possible case of suppletion and/or a~n-stem variation is kutruwas 'witness', pl. kutrues/kutruwas/kutruwanes/kutruenes, Dat./Loc.sg. kutrui. The nasal stem is derivable (a la Heiner Eichner) from *kWtru-h1on- 'the fourth one' (the other three being the contract parties and the judge), with *kWtru- = a variant of *kWtw(o)r-, and the a-stem may owe its existence to the reanalysis of the ambiguous Nom.sg. with -as < *-o:(n) + -s

Jaah Puhvel takes WOMAN-za, WOMAN-nas to stand for Proto-Anatolian *gwans, *gwanas < *gWon-s, *gWnnós, the root-noun ancestor of *gW(e)n-ah2-.

Piotr

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Subject: Re: [tied] <pir>

There are very few examples of Hittite non-neuter n-stems (Friedrich only gives MUNUS-za, MUNUS-nas "woman" and the handful of -as/-anas words like haras "eagle" [under "mixed n-/a-stems"]), so I don't have a good idea of how to interpret them. Van den Hout (U. of Amsterdam) doubts between Friedrich's explanation (suppletion between a-stem nom.sg. haras, and oblique n-stem haran-) and a phonetic explanation (nom.sg. haran-s > hara(:)s). He mentions an "a-stem" acc.pl. arkammus "tributes" (arkammas, arkammanas) for expected *arkammanus, and irregular nom.sg. ishiminas, acc.sg. ishimenan besides ishima:s, ishimanan "knot". The word memiya(n)- ~ memin- "word" is highly irregular, ocuurring both as neuter and as common gender noun (nom. INIM-as (memias), acc. INIM-an (memian), n. memian, obl. memiyan- ~ memin-).