hamna

noun. pile, (artificial) mound, pile, (artificial) mound, [ᴹQ.] heap

A noun appearing in Outline of Phonology (OP2) as part of revisions made in 1959 or later. It had the gloss “pile, (artificial) mound” and was derived from the root √KHAB “heap up, pile up” from a primitive form ✶khabnā (PE19/91). In this word, the ancient voiced stop b became nasal m before another nasal.

Conceptual Development: In the original draft of OP2, this word was given as hahta “piled mound, heap”, but this word was deleted and the section where it appeared was rejected (PE19/92). See the entry for ᴹQ. hahta for a discussion of the earlier iteration of this word.

Cognates

• T. hamna “pile, (artificial) mound, heap” ✧ PE19/092; PE19/091
• S. haudh “(funeral) mound, grave; heap, piled mound, (funeral) mound, grave, [N.] tomb; [orig.] †heap, piled mound” ✧ PE19/092

Derivations

• ✶khabnā “pile, (artificial) mound” ✧ PE19/091
  • √KHAB “heap up, pile up” ✧ PE19/091
• ✶khagdā “piled mound, heap” ✧ PE19/092
  • √KHAG “pile up” ✧ PE19/092

Phonetic Developments

Development	Stages	Sources
✶khabnā > hamna	[kʰabnā] > [xabnā] > [xamnā] > [hamnā] > [hamna]	✧ PE19/091
✶khagdā > hahta	[kʰagdā] > [kʰaktā] > [xaktā] > [xaxtā] > [haxtā] > [haxta]	✧ PE19/092

Variations

• hahta ✧ PE19/092 (hahta)

hahta

pile, mound

hahta noun "pile, mound" (KHAG)

haura

noun. funeral mound

TQ. funeral mound