/irnilizza-/, i+ra/i-ní-li-za
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1642
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/irnilizza-/, i+ra/i-ní-li-za
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in an inscription from Commagene dating to early 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | /irnilizzan/ | i+ra/i-ní-li-za-na | ADIYAMAN 1, §2 (Commagene) |
| ADIYAMAN 1, §3 (Commagene) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is provisional, because it has not yet been connected to any cognates outside of HLuw., and the interpretation of its derivational base /irnila-/ is likewise uncertain, see the discussion there. Only the final suffix of the word, /-izza-/ is well-known from other words and its shape therefore certain.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The partly transparent morphology can be used to identify the word as an adjective of appurtenance in /-izza-/, formed from a noun that occurs in the very same text one clause earlier. ADIYAMAN 1, §§1-3 hence read: [… (DEUS)TONITR]US-[s]a [i+ra/i]-ní-la-a PRAE-i CRUS+RA/I a-wa/i za-na CAELUM-sa-si-na i+ra/i-ní-li-za-na [(DEUS)TONITRUS … ] za-pa-[wa/i] CAELUM i+ra/i-ní-li-za-na (DEUS)TONITRUS-na kwa/i-i-sa MALUS-la/i-ti ARHA+MALLEUS, approx. /… Tarhunzas irnila pari … a=wa zan tippasassin irnilizzan … zan=ba=… tippasassin irnilizzan Tarhunzan kwis attuwaladi ahha wallai/, translating as ‘(The Storm-god) Tarhunza stood before the irnila-. This celestial [Tarhunza] of irnila- … But (he) who smashes this celestial Tarhunza of irnila- with evil, …’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:345).
The suffix /-izza-/ frequently, but by no means exclusively, The strength of the connection between /-izza-/ and toponyms is overstated in Bauer 2014a:151-154. attaches to toponyms to form ethnic adjectives. It is therefore possible that /irnila-/ constitutes a toponym. However, the first preserved clause of the inscription appears to describe the Storm-god Tarhunza as standing in front of an /irnila-/, suggesting that it denotes something concrete instead of referring to a locale. The matter can only be elucidated with further evidence.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The adjective is derived with the suffix /-izza-/ from the noun /irnila-/ ‘(unknown)’, cf. e.g. Melchert 2003b:197. As is obvious from the attestations, it does not undergo i-mutation.
[AH.B.]
For the derivational base, see HLuw. /irnila-/.