/hanta/, (“FRONS”)ha-ta
‘in view of’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adpos
- ID
- 1073
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hanta/, (“FRONS”)ha-ta
‘in front of (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found only once in an inscription from Amuq, dating to the second half of the 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /hanta/ | (“FRONS”)ha-ta | KIRÇOĞLU, §3 (Amuq) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Despite just a single attestation, the phonological interpretation for the present lemma is quite secure, because it belongs to the word family around HLuw. /ḫant(a)-/ ‘face’. The spelling shows the sign FRONS (*26), which is commonly found throughout the entire word family.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The present form has for a long time been regarded as another instance of HLuw. /hant(a)-/ ‘face’ (e.g. by Hawkins 2000a:383f.), but the context does not support such an interpretation. Instead, an analysis as an adverb seems indicated in the clause in KIRÇOĞLU, §3: wa/i-ma-sá (“FRONS”)ha-ta 1000 DOMUS-sa-ha i-zi-i-tà-ta-a, i.e. /wa=m(u)=as hanta 1000 parnassan=ha izidatta/, which Melchert 2011b:79f. translates as ‘She (scil. the queen) became the object of honour/worship before me and a thousand houses.’
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The word is derived from the HLuw. noun /hant(a)-/ ‘face’ and is an adverb in -a. For comparable adverbs cf. HLuw. /tarpa/ ‘aggressively’, see Yakubovich 2015b:section 6.6.
[AH.B.]
*This lemma was written in collaboration with the trainee Marian Wehrstein.
For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hant-.