/kummastarr(i)-/, ku-ma-sa-tara/i-
‘purification’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 1161
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/kummastarr(i)-/, ku-ma-sa-tara/i-
‘purification’1.1.1Transmission
A hapax legomenon, this lexeme is attested in Commagene in an inscription dating to the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /kummastarrin/ | ku-ma-sa-tara/i-na | ANCOZ 7, §7 (Commagene) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The only existing attestation of this lexeme is written syllabically, which provides a good impression of its phonological form. Assisting the interpretation is the fact that both the lexical base as well as the suffix are well-known from HLuw. and CLuw.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
While the suffix /-starr(i)-/ suggests an abstract meaning for this noun, i.e. ‘purity’, the context shows that a partial re-concretisation has taken place in this case. The form serves as the direct object of the verb /izzi(ya)-/ ‘to make’ and denotes an action the king has taken for the benefit of some cities.
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1.1.5Stem
The stem displays the suffix /-starr(i)-/, which is used to form animate nouns with an abstract meaning, usually from adjectives (CLL:196; Yakubovich 2016b:471). An adjective kumma- ‘pure, sacred’ is not attested in HLuw., but it appears in CLuw.
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