/sarmiyazza-(i)/, SARMA+RA/I+MI-ia-za-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1281
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/sarmiyazza-(i)/, SARMA+RA/I+MI-ia-za-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested just once in an inscription on a stele from Tabal, dating to between 750 and 740 BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. ind. act. | /sarmiyazzahha/ | SARMA+RA/I+MI-ia-za-ha | KULULU 4, §5 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation was first suggested by Kalaç 1983a:170 and later followed by Hawkins 2000a:447. The fact that the logogramm SARMA (sign *80) is used to spell the lexeme may or may not serve as a link to the god Sarruma, whose name is found in many proper names besides, e.g. that of King Wasusarma.
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1.1.4Meaning
With a single attestation and no known cognates, the meaning of the present verb is difficult to assess. The clause in KULULU 4, §5 reads: a-wa/i á-mi-ia-za DOMINUS-na-za IIUSTITIA.LA COR-la-ti-i-´ INFRA-na-na SARMA+RA/I+MI-ia-za-ha, approx. /a=wa ammiyanz(a) nannanz(a) Labarna atradi annan sarmiyazzahha/, translating as ‘I ...-ed under my lords (and the?) Labarna with my soul’ vel sim. Hawkins 2000a:447 suggests, based on the context of this commemorative stele, that at least when co-occuring with the preverb /annan/ ‘under’, it probably denotes an action of subservience such as ‘to bow, submit’ vel sim. Hawkins 1995a:112 proposes that the phrase ‘my lords’ in this context is to be understood as denoting the gods, while the noun Labarna may refer to the sovereign of the stele’s author.
Although the exact lexical meaning of the verb remains in the dark, it is clearly derived with the deverbal suffix /-zza-(i)/, which marks imperfective stems. The action denoted by the verb can therefore be assumed to be ongoing.
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1.1.5Stem
Doubtlessly a verb, the present lexeme belongs to the formations in /-zza-(i)/ and hence inflects according to the ḫi-conjugation, see [
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