/miyant(i)-/, mi-ia-ti-
‘many’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1625
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/miyant(i)-/, mi-ia-ti-
‘many’1.1.1Transmission
Attested two times in the corpus, this lexeme can be found in both HLuw. versions of the KARATEPE bilingual, which dates to the early 7th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. c. | /miyantinzi/ | mi-ia-ti-zi | KARATEPE 1 Hu., §51 (Cilicia) |
| mì-ia-tí-zi4 | KARATEPE 1 Ho., §51 (Cilicia) |
Both KARATEPE attestations are followed by the connector /=ha/ ´and´, spelt 〈-ha〉 in Hu., and 〈-há〉 in Ho.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological form of this word is reasonably clear, mainly because its derivational and inflectional suffixes are known from other HLuw. words.
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1.1.4Meaning
Despite a mere two attestations, the meaning of the word has long been clear, see already Laroche 1963a:78. It is used twice in a bilingual inscription and translates the Phoenician phrase w-rb šnt ‘and multitude of years’. While the HLuw. version of that passage, /miyantinzi ussinzi/ ‘many years’, is morphologically different and combines an adjective and a noun, the meaning remains the same.
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1.1.5Stem
The adjective is built with the suffix /-ant(i)-/, which has ceased to be productive in Luwian, cf. Melchert 2003b:198. Contrary to a long held communis opinio (cf. HED M:123), there is probably no etymological link with Hittite mekki- ‘many, much; often’; see the reconstruction under the lemma head.
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For the lemma head, see HLuw. *miya-(i).