/tanuwa-(i)/
‘to cause to stand’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1405
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tanuwa-(i)/, ta-nu-wa/i-
‘to cause to stand’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested both in the Bronze Age and in the Iron Age period. Its first full phonetic spelling is attested in KARKAMIŠ A6, §19 dated to the late 9th early 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
For the assignment of CRUS-ha (ARSUZ, §18) to this lexeme see Dinçol, Dinçol, Hawkins, Peker & Öztan 2015a:68. The word ta-ta (TİLSEVET, §1) represents an abbreviated spelling for expected 〈ta-nu-wa/i-ta〉.
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1.1.3Meaning
The meaning ‘Ger. aufstellen lassen’ or ‘Eng. to cause to stand’ was elucidated by Bossert 1951b:177-180 using the passage of the attestation in SULTANHAN, §2 (cf. Laroche 1960c:49f.; Morpurgo Davies 1987a:213). The direct objects of the verb tanuwa-(i) are either steles, statues, gods or individuals (Morpurgo Davies 1987a:213).
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1.1.4Stem
This verb is derived from ta-(i) ‘to stand’ with the causative suffix /-nuwa-(i)/.
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1.1.5Derivatives
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
The Luwian lexeme is a causative formation in /-nuwa-(i)/ derived from the verb /ta-(i)/ ‘to stand’ (Morpurgo Davies 1987a:213f., Oettinger 1992a:246 n. 65). Since the Luwian causative formation does not show a zero-grade of the root, one must conclude that the formation, if it existed in the proto-language, has been rebuilt based on the fixed stem /ta-(i)/ ‘to stand’. Therefore, /tanuwa-(i)/ is a young formation. The Hittite cognate tin(n)u-(mi) ‘to paralyze’ (HEG T,D: 374f.) contains the same verbal suffix but is derived from a different base, i.e. *tiye/a- < *sth2-i̯é/ó-.
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For the lemma head see HLuw. /ta-(i)/.