/habanzulawa(/i)-/, (“COR”)ha-pa-zú+ra/i-wa/i-
‘devotion (vel sim.)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, gender unclear
- ID
- 1583
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/habanzulawa(/i)-/, (“COR”)ha-pa-zú+ra/i-wa/i-
‘devotion (?)’1.1.1Transmission
A hapax legomenon, this lexeme can be found once in an inscription from the Karkamiš area, which dates to the late 9th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | /habanzulawadi/ | (“COR”)ha-pa-zú+ra/i-wa/i-ti | KÖRKÜN, §3 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme can be accepted as reasonably certain. Its fully syllabic spelling receives further interpretational aid from partial cognates found elsewhere, viz. the noun 
ḫapa(n)zuwalatar ‘obedience’. In contrast to the CLuw. evidence, however, the HLuw. attestation shows the sign 〈+ra/i〉 attached to 〈zú〉 rather than to 〈wa/i〉, as already pointed out by Hawkins 2000a:173 (see also discussion of stem below). As is usual in HLuw. orthography, a pre-consonantal /n/ is dropped, and the /l/ has undergone rhotacism (cf. Melchert 2003b:179f., 182).
Previous scholarship (e.g. Melchert 1988b:237) has called into doubt the validity of including 〈+ra/i〉 attached to the sign 〈zú〉, but Hawkins 2000a:173 sees no basis on which to dismiss the sign.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning and part of speech category of this lexeme is tentative, because it is attested only once in an ill-understood clause. By virtue of its etymological connection to Luw. ḫapa(n)zuwalanni ‘in obedience’, Melchert 1988b:236f. proposes an unattested adjective for CLuw., i.e. */habanzu-/ ‘obedient, loyal’, that would also have served as the derivational basis for the present word. Taken as an adjective by both Melchert 1988b:237 and Hawkins 2000a:172f., the word may in fact constitute a noun instead that is linked asyndetically with the preceding noun /attanadi/ ‘soul, self’, likewise in the abl./instr.
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1.1.5Stem
As noted by Hawkins 2000a:173, the spelling of the HLuw. word should be taken seriously and is thus not the same found in ḫapa(n)zuwalatar. In the HLuw. context, the word can be either a postnominal adjective or another noun. While its etymological link is reasonably clear, the stem formation of the present lexeme proves much less transparent. It is possible that the stem shows the suffix /-wa(/i)-/ (cf. Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:310f.).
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For the lemma head, see PAnat. *Hep-.