/asa-(i)/, (SOLIUM)á-sa-
‘to sit, dwell’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1456
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/asa-(i)/, (SOLIUM)á-sa-
‘to sit, dwell’1.1.1Transmission
This verb is attested 13 times in the HLuw. corpus, and the relevant inscriptions originate from several regions: Cilicia, Karkamiš, and Tabal towards the East and South, and Emirgazi and Malatya towards the West. The more western texts date to the 13th and 12th centuries BCE, while those further east and south fall into the Iron Age with datings between the late 10th and the early 7th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | /asai/ | SOLIUM+MI-sá-i | KARATEPE 1 Hu., §54 (Cilicia) |
| SOLIUM+MI-i | KARATEPE 1 Hu., §24 (Cilicia) | ||
| KARATEPE 1 Ho., §24 (Cilicia) | |||
| ÇİFTLİK, §10 (Tabal) | |||
| SOLIUM+MI | ÇİFTLİK, §9 (Tabal) | ||
| [SOLIUM]+MI-[...] | ÇİFTLİK, §8 (Tabal) | ||
| 3pl. pres. act. | /asanti/ | SOLIUM+MI-ti | KARKAMIŠ A2+3, §17e (Karkamiš) |
| 3sg. impv. med. | /asaru/ | SOLIUM-ru | EMİRGAZİ 1A, §6 (Emirgazi) |
| 1sg. pret. act. | /asahha/ | SOLIUM | YALBURT frag. 2, §2 |
| 3sg. pret. act. | /asatta/ | SOLIUM.MI-ta | KARATEPE 1 Hu., §37 (Cilicia) |
| SOLIUM-tá | KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §4 (Malatya) | ||
| 3pl. pret. act. | /asanta/ | (SOLIUM)á-sa-tá | KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §10 (Karkamiš) |
| unclear | /asa-.../ | SOLIUM+MI-i-x | ÇALAPVERDİ 2, §2 (Tabal) |
The attribution to the present lexeme of SOLIUM as attested in YALBURT frag. 2, §2 follows Hawkins 1995a:82.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this verb can be deemed secure despite only one fully syllabic spelling. However, as part of a larger word family including /asa-/ ‘seat’ and various words based on */is-/,The vowel disparaty has resulted from a different grade vowel in each form, see Oettinger 2004g:490. the interpretation is supported etymologically. The word family is also marked by the use of the logograms SOLIUM (sign *299) and MENSA/THRONUS (*294), which tie the forms together.
The presence of the sign 〈mi〉 with the logographic determinative (used in ÇİFTLİK and KARATEPE) has so far remained unexplained (Hawkins 2000a:112, 292).
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1.1.4Meaning
The semantic interpretation was first provided by Hrozný 1933a:18With long since corrected sign readings. at a very early stage in HLuwian studies, not least because the logograms used (SOLIUM, and MENSA/THRONUS for other words in the same family) are quite pictographic and aid their understanding. The contexts show the verb to be intransitive, as is expected.
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1.1.5Stem
The HLuw. verb /asa-(i)/ ‘to sit’ is cognate with the root */is-/, which has so far remained unattested as a simplex in HLuw. but is present in several derivations such as /ist(a)ratt(a)-/ ‘throne’; CLuwian, in contrast, features the athematic verb iš-(ti) ‘to sit’ (Sasseville 2021a:264f.). /asa-(i)/ is a orginally a parallel radical derivation that has developed a theme vowel (Sasseville 2021a:342f., 396).
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For the lemma head, see CLuw. /is-(ti)/.