Kanisite Hittite

The Earliest Attested Record of Indo-European
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-39791-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 132, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 572 g

Reihe: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

In Kanišite Hittite Alwin Kloekhorst discusses the ethno-linguistic make-up of Kaniš (Central Anatolia, modern-day Kültepe), the most important Anatolian mercantile centre during the karum-period (ca. 1970-1710 BCE), when Assyrian merchants dominated the trade in Anatolia. Especially by analysing the personal names of local individuals attested in Old Assyrian documents from Kaniš, Alwin Kloekhorst demonstrates that the main language spoken there was a dialect of Hittite that was closely related to but nevertheless distinct from the Hittite language as spoken in the later Hittite Kingdom. This book offers a full account of all onomastic material and other linguistic data of Kanišite Hittite, which constitute the oldest attested record of any Indo-European language.

"The achievement of Kloekhorst’s study is that it advances the case for classifying the local language as a predecessor of Hittite. the present
state of knowledge as presented by Kloekhorst is a huge step forward and he is to be congratulated with this important milestone in Old Assyrian and Hittite studies."

-J.J. de Ridder, BIBLIOTHECA ORIENTALIS LXXVII 3-4 (2020)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kloekhorst, Alwin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie spezieller Regionen und Zeitalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Etymologie, Onomastik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Methodology and Analyses

1 Personal Names in the Old Assyrian Texts from Kaniš

1.1 Dating of Texts

1.2 Old Assyrian Texts from Outside Kaniš

1.3 Men’s vs. Women’s Names

1.4 Family Relations

1.5 Names Attested in Other Sources

2 The Linguistic Analysis of Personal Names: Methodological Preliminaries

2.1 Kanišite Names

2.2 Methodological Difficulties

3 Phonological Interpretation of the Kanišite Names

3.1 The Transliteration of the Cuneiform Signs

3.2 Spelling Alternations in Names

4 Identifying the Linguistic Background of the Kanišite Personal Names

4.1 The Term nuwa’um

4.2 Influence of the Local Language(s) of Kaniš on Old Assyrian

4.3 Arguments for a Hittitoid Identification

4.4 Arguments for a Luwic Identification

4.5 Arguments for a Hurrian Identification

4.6 Arguments for a Hattic Identification

4.7 Names of an Unclear Origin

4.8 Conclusions: Kanišite Hittite

Part 2: Kanišite Hittite Personal Names: the Material

5 Kanišite Hittite Compound Names

5.1 The Linking -a-

5.2 The Final Elements of the Kanišite Hittite Compound Names

5.3 The Initial Elements of the Kanišite Hittite Compound Names

5.4 Summary: an Overview of Elements

6 Other Kanišite Hittite Names

6.1 Relatively Certain Cases

6.2 Less Certain Cases

6.3 Excursus: the Alleged(?) Kanišite Name labarna(š)

7 Excursus 1: Kanišite ašie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.) and the Hittite Verbal System

7.1 ašie/at (m.) and na/ikilie/at (m.)

7.2 A Morphological Analysis

7.3 ašie/at and na/ikilie/at as Original Verbal Forms

7.4 Other Names in -iet / -iat

8 Excursus 2: Kanišite -ašue and the Feminine Gender in Hittite and Proto-Indo-European

8.1 -ašu-e and PIE *-ih2-

8.2 Feminine Gender in Anatolian?

8.3 The Original Function of PIE *-ih2-

8.4 The Element -e in -ašue: a Motion Suffix or an Agreement Marker?

Part 3: The Linguistic Status of Kanišite Hittite

9 Comparing Kanišite Hittite to Hattuša Hittite

9.1 Epenthesis in */sp-/

9.2 Kanišite Hitt. -Hšu(šar) vs. Hattuša Hitt. Haššu(šra)-

9.3 Kanišite Hitt. išpud- / šupud- vs. Hattuša Hitt. išpant-

9.4 Kanišite Hitt. išpun- / šapun- / šupun- vs. Hattuša Hitt. išpant-

9.5 Two Different Dialects: Kanišite Hittite vs. Hattuša Hittite

10 Two Hittite Dialects: Historical Reality

10.1 The Language Situation in Hattuša in the Early 2nd Millennium BCE

10.2 Dating the Hattic-Hittite Language Shift in Hattuša

10.3 The Place from Where Hittite was Introduced into Hattuša

10.4 Problem: Hattuša Hittite is not Kanišite Hittite

10.5 Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alwin Kloekhorst, Ph.D. (2007), Leiden University, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at LUCL. He has published extensively on Hittite, including the monographs Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Brill, 2008) and Accent in Hittite (Harrassowitz, 2014).