/tazza-(i)/, ta-za-
‘to continue to stand, remain’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1407
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tazza-(i)/, ta-za-
‘to continue to stand, remain’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is only attested in the Bilingual inscription KARATEPE 1 dated to the late 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. impv. | /tazzattu/ | (“CRUS<”>)ta-za-tu | KARATEPE 1 Hu., §74 (Cilicia) |
| CRUS[…]-tu | KARATEPE 1 Ho., §74 (Cilicia) |
1.1.3Meaning
For the semantic interpretation of the verb see Morpurgo Davies 1987a:213f.; cf. Hawkins 2000a:67, Payne 2012a:43.
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1.1.4Stem
The verbal suffix /-azza-(i)/ is used to mark the finite verb /ta-(i)/ as imperfective (Melchert 2003b:205).
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2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
The Luwian lexeme /tazza-(i)/ is an imperfective formation in /-zza-(i)/ (< *-sk̂e/o-) derived from the verb /ta-(i)/ ‘to stand’ (Morpurgo Davies 1987a:213f., Oettinger 1992a:246 n. 65). The Hittite form ti(ye)ške/a-(mi) contains the same verbal suffix, i.e. tiye/a-(mi), but is derived from a different base. However, since the Luwian imperfective formation does not show a zero-grade of the root, as expected from a Proto-Indo-European perspective, one must conclude that it was rebuilt based on the fixed stem /ta-(i)/ ‘to stand’.
[D.S.]
For the lemam head see HLuw. /ta-(i)/.