/kummi-x-ssa-/, PURUS-mi-x-sá-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1162
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/kummi-x-ssa-/, PURUS-mi-x-sá-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
Attested once in a severely abraded inscription, this verb is found in Tabal and is tentatively dated to the 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3. sg. pres. act. | /kummi-x-ssai/ | PURUS-mi-x-sá-i | TEKİRDERBENT 1, l. 1 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Written with the logogram PURUS, this verb very likely belongs to the word family around /kummai(ya)-/ ‘pure, sacred’. However, the only existing attestation occurs in a badly damaged context and therefore contains at least one unidentifiable sign, rendering the reading of the form incomplete.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this verb is unclear and will likely remain so in the absence of further attestations, because the inscription it occurs in is not only severely abraded, but in addition to that offers hardly any complete words at all. Due to the use of the logogram PURUS, it is reasonable to assume that the meaning of the verb belongs to the semantic range around the adjective /kummaya/i-/ ‘pure, sacred’, but it cannot be ascertained what action precisely it denotes.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The stem seems to be based on /kummi-/ unlike some other words within this family, which are based on kumma-, attested in CLuw. However, the following sign being unidentifiable, it remains unclear how that part of the verbal stem is built. Only the final part of the stem is clear again, as it features the suffix /-ssa-/, which is also attested in other verbs and marks the stem as imperfective (Melchert 2003b:205).
[AH.B.]