/isnu(wa)-(i)/, (SOLIUM)i-sà-nu-wa/i-
‘to seat, settle’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1462
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/isnu(wa)-(i)/, (SOLIUM)i-sà-nu-wa/i-
‘to seat, settle’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme occurs 44 times in the HLuw. corpus and therefore counts among the well-attested words. The relevant texts originate across most of the HLuw. area from Emirgazi towards the West to Commagene in the East, and their dating covers the entire HLuw. era from the second half of the 13th century BCE to the early 7th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
The above table does not list all occurrences of the word, but care has been taken to ensure illustration of the spelling variation; broken attestations have been left out.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The attestations of this lexeme show considerable variation in spelling, ranging from fully syllabic renditions with different signs for the same syllabic value to entirely logographic ones, thereby providing a good impression of the phonological shape of the word. It is noteworthy that the verb is consistently spelt with 〈sà〉 rather than any of the other SA signs, strongly suggesting that the underlying phoneme is /ʃ/, see Rieken 2010b:658f. The only phonological variation visible is the alternation between /-nuwa-/ and /-nu-/ in the suffix, which is frequently subject to contraction (cf. e.g. Melchert 2003b:183).
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is assigned on etymological as well as contextual grounds and therefore well-founded. Belonging to the word family around /asa-(i)/ ‘to sit’, the verb is a causative formation and clearly transitive, as becomes obvious e.g. in KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §17: *a-wa/i-ma-tá za-ti-i (“PODIUM”)hu-ma-ti (SOLIUM)i-sà-nú-wa/i-ha, approx. /a=wa=mu=ada zatti hummadi isnuwahha/, ‘I settled them for myself in this precinct’.
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1.1.5Stem
The verb is built from the root variant */is-/, which is not attested as a simplex in HLuw., but can be found in a number of other derivations such as /ist(a)ratt(a)-/ ‘throne’, /isan-/ ‘couch, bed (?)’ and others. Its suffix /-nu(wa)-(i)/ adds a causative meaning, see Sasseville 2021a:466.
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For the base of the derivative, see CLuw. /is-(ti)/.