/ussallizza-/, (“ANNUS”)u-sa-li-za-
‘annual, yearly’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1156
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/ussallizza-/, (“ANNUS”)u-sa-li-za-
‘annual, yearly’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme occurs three times in the HLuw. corpus. The attestations all originate from inscriptions found in Karkamiš and date to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | /ussallizzas/ | ANNUS-sa-li-za-sa | KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §18a (Karkamiš) |
| acc. sg. c. | /ussallizzan/ | (“ANNUS”)u-sa-li-za-ná | KARKAMIŠ A13d, §10 (Karkamiš) |
| ANNUS-sa-li-z[a]-n[a] | KARKAMIŠ A4d, §1 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
With three fully or partially syllabically spelt attestations, the phonological interpretation of the present lexeme is reasonably secure. The interpretation is further supported by the fact that /ussallizza-/ belongs to the word family around /uss(i)-/ ‘year’. So far, there are no exactly matching cognates in the other Anatolian languages, although the base noun can be found in CLuw. ušš(i)- ‘year’ and Lyc. uh(i)- ‘year’ (cf. e.g. HEG W-Z:572f.).
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning was assigned by Meriggi 1975a:112, 119 and Hawkins 1975a:133f., after a reinterpretation of some of the syllabic signs had cleared the path to linking the present lexeme to the word family around /uss(i)-/ ‘year’. Within the contexts it appears in, the word is used to modify sacrificial items such as bread (although in KARKAMIŠ A13d, §10, the inscription breaks off before the noun).The earlier tentative and ultimately wrong interpretation by Meriggi 1934a:46f. (“außerdem (?)”) was based on the erroneous reading of a number of signs in the word and abandoned in favour of no translation already in Meriggi 1951a:47.
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1.1.5Stem
Ultimately based on the noun /uss(i)-/ ‘year’, this adjective is derived with two suffixes, both well-known from other HLuw. lexemes: /-alla/i-/ and /-izza-/, both of which form possessive adjectives (cf. e.g. Yakubovich 2015b:6.2), although the former is no longer productive in Iron Age Luwian (Bauer 2014a:162-164). The reason for this repeated derivation is that many original adjectives of appurtenance in /-alla/i-/ were subsequently nominalised (cf. e.g.Sasseville 2014-2015a:109f.) and then required new adjectives to be derived.
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