Kanisite Hittite : : the earliest attested record of Indo-European / / by Alwin Kloekhorst.

• Superior document: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 132
• VerfasserIn: Kloekhorst, Alwin,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 132.; Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1: The Near and Middle East Online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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 kārum-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)

Table of Contents

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 nuwā'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 Ḫattuša Hittite -- 9.1 Epenthesis in */sp-/ -- 9.2 Kanišite Hitt. -ḫšu(šar) vs. Ḫattuša Hitt. ḫaššu(šra)- -- 9.3 Kanišite Hitt. išpud- / šupud- vs. Ḫattuša Hitt. išpant- -- 9.4 Kanišite Hitt. išpun- / šapun- / šupun- vs. Ḫattuša Hitt. išpant- -- 9.5 Two Different Dialects: Kanišite Hittite vs. Ḫattuša Hittite -- 10 Two Hittite Dialects: Historical Reality -- 10.1 The Language Situation in Ḫattuša in the Early 2nd Millennium BCE -- 10.2 Dating the Hattic-Hittite Language Shift in Ḫattuša -- 10.3 The Place from Where Hittite was Introduced into Ḫattuša -- 10.4 Problem: Ḫattuša Hittite is not Kanišite Hittite -- 10.5 Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Index.