/tanussa-(i)/, CRUS-nu-sà-
‘to set up’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1408
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tanussa-(i)/, CRUS-nu-sà-
‘to set up’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon attested in an inscription from Karkamiš dated to c. 800 BCE.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pres. ind. act. | /tanussawi/ | “CRUS”-nu-sà-wa/i-´ | KARKAMIŠ A15b, §29 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Rieken 2010b:657 argues that the use of the sign 〈sà〉 render a palatal fricative.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
No translation of the word “CRUS”-nu-sà-wa/i-´ is offered in Hawkins 2000a:131 or in Payne 2012a:87, since the passage is fragmentary. From a morphological perspective, it is a verbal derivative in /-ssa-(i)/ from the verb /tanuwa-(i)/ ‘to cause to stand, set up’. The verbal suffix /-ssa-(i)/ is used to mark the finite verb /tanuwa-(i)/ as imperfective (Melchert 2003b:205). Therefore, one would expect the verb to mean approximately ‘I am setting up’.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /ta-(i)/.