/puTi-/, pu-ti-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1325
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/puTi-/, pu-ti-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of this lexeme can be found in an inscription from Maraş, dating to the 10th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. ind. act. | /puTiHa/ | (X)pu-ti-ha | MARAŞ 8, §10 (Maraş) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
As the word is a hapax legomenon, its phonological interpretation is not secure. The quality of the dental does not become obvious, nor that of the fricative of the ending, both are due to the idiosyncrasies of the HLuw. writing system and here represented by the cover symbols /T/ and /H/. There are currently no known cognates in the other Anatolian languages that are recorded in more precise scripts. The verb is probably related to the noun /puTi(n)t(i)-/ ‘(an occupation)’, whose phonological shape and meaning likewise remain obscured, see under lemma.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this verb could so far not be determined, because the context of attestation in MARAŞ 8, §10 is largely unclear: a-wa/i x-hwa/i-ru-ha-ta-za (X)pu-ti-ha, cf. cf. Hawkins 2000a:253-255. Only the functional words /a=wa/ in the clause are known, whereas both lexical words have so far remained uninterpreted.
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1.1.5Origin
No etymology possible.
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