/hanti/, FRONS-ti
‘against, bevore’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 1074
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hanti/, FRONS-ti
‘against, before’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found four times, always in inscriptions from Karkamiš, dating to between the 11th and the 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /hanti/ | FRONS-ti-i | KARKAMIŠ A6, §20 (Karkamiš) |
| FRONS-ti | KARKAMIŠ A4b, §3 (Karkamiš) | ||
| KARKAMIŠ N1, §3 (Karkamiš) | |||
| PRAE-ti | CEKKE inscr. 2, §12(Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Although none of the four attestations is spelt syllabically, we can connect them to the word family HLuw. /hant(a)-/ ‘face’, not least because of the use of the logogram FRONS, cf. Yakubovich 2012a:322f.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word is an adverb whose semantic range covers the meanings ‘against’ and ‘before’. Especially in the inscriptions KARKAMIŠ 4b and N1, it is used as ‘against’, whereas in KARKAMIŠ A6 and CEKKE, it is used non-confrontationally with a spatial meaning ‘before’, cf. Yakubovich 2012a:322f. A related meaning is found in the full cognate Hittite ḫanti ‘opposite’, see e.g. HED H:95.
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1.1.5Stem
The lemma is an adverb in -i, and like its Hittite cognate ḫanti ‘opposite’ lexicalised from the dat./loc. sg. of the neuter noun HLuw. /hant(a)-/ ‘face’, cf. e.g. HED H:95 and Yakubovich 2012a:322f.
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*This lemma was written in collaboration with the trainee Marian Wehrstein.
For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hant-.