/was(a)u-^(di)?/, wa/i₅-sú-

This lexeme occurs only once in the HLuw. corpus. Its sole attestation stems from an inscription from Tabal and is dated to the mid-8^th century BCE.

[AH.B.]

1sg. pret. ind. act.

/wasuha/

wa/i5-sú-ha

TOPADA, §18 (Tabal)

The verb is intransitive and used in a short clause in TOPADA, §18 as part of a passage detailing the divine support the author believes himself to benefit from: wa/i-mi-ta_x tù-pa-sa₆-ti wa/i₅-sú-ha ‘I succeeded by^? battle’ (cf. Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1979a:392 and Hawkins 2000a:453). Yakubovich 2002a:199 points to the use of the reflexive particle underlining this meaning.

[AH.B.]

This verb is derived from the u-stem adjective /wasu-/ ‘good, well’. Thus was already suggested by Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1979a:392, although they regarded the forms attested for the verbs /wasu-/ and /wass-/ as belonging to a single paradigm. Despite only one attestation, it is quite likely that the formation belongs to the class of verbs in /-(a)u-^(di)?/ (Sasseville 2021a:198f.), although the particulars of that class itself are not beyond doubt due to an overall scanty attestation (Sasseville 2021a:180-183, 190f.).

Outdated is the analysis by Hawkins 2000a:457, who considered the present form to belong to the verb /wass-^(ti)/ ‘to be dear/pleasing’, which has a different stem formation; see under lemma. Likewise outdated are the analyses offered by Weitenberg 1984a:395.

[AH.B.]

For the derivational base, see HLuw. /wasu-/.