/kwaTana/i-/, (*187)kwa/i-ta-na-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1882
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/kwaTana/i-/, (*187)kwa/i-ta-na-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tell Ahmar, dating to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | /kwaTanadi/ | (*187)kwa/i-ta-na-ti-i | TELL AHMAR 6, §24 (Tell Ahmar) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is provisional, because its spelling offers more than one possible reading. The quality of the word-internal dental is unclear, hence the use of the cover symbol /T/. Alternative readings for the attested spelling are /kwantana/i-/ and /kwi(n)Tana/i-/.
Though speculative, it should be considered whether the spelling is perhaps defective and missing a sign 〈ia〉, in which case it may be belong to the HLuw. word family around HLuw. /kwaya-(i)/ ‘to revere’ and be cognate with CLuw. kuwayada- ‘fear, respect’ and related words (cf. CLL:118), see the discussion of the meaning below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Although it was clear from the beginning that the present lexeme represented an adjective (Hawkins 2006a:28), its meaning cannot be gleaned from the context in TELL AHMAR 6, §24: a-wa/i kwa/i-a-ti-i (ANNUS)u-si-i (FLUMEN)*427.*311-pa-x (PES2)i-˹ha˺ (DEUS)TONITRUS-sa-ti (*314)ha-sa-ta-na-ti-i 500-ta-na-ti (“SCALA+PES+ROTA”)za-la-la-ti-i *179.*347.5-ia-ma-ti (*187)kwa/i-ta-na-ti-i-ha-wa/i EXERCITUS.LA/I/U-na-ti-i, approx. /a=wa kwatti ussi … iha Tarhuntassadi hastanadi …-tanadi zallalladi …-yammadi kwaTanadi kwalanadi/, translating as ‘In the year in which I went to … with Tarhunza’s support, with 500? cart(s), … and with the k. army’ (cf. Hawkins 2006a:15). Pace Hawkins 2006a:28, it is not at all clear if 〈500-ta-na-ti〉 represents the numeral ‘five-hundred’. If it did, it would constitute the only numeral above ‘four’ to show this many phonetic complements in the entire HLuw. corpus, rather than only an ending. It is hence possible that the word is instead an adjective with rebus writing.
The logogram used as a determinative, *187, is otherwise mainly known from a few words for kin. In the text, the author of the stele relates his military victory after which he dedicated the installation to the deity Tarhunza of the Army. If the spelling of the adjective should indeed be defective and there was a link with HLuw. /kwaya-(i)/ ‘to revere’, /kwayada-/ ‘reverence’, and CLuw. kuwayada- ‘fear, respect’ (cf. CLL:118), a suitable meaning would be ‘revered, feared, respected’ vel sim., which would be fully supported by the context and fit the other uses of *187.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
Unclear.
However, if the connection with HLuw. /kwayada-/ ‘reverence’ should turn out to be valid, the adjective would represent a derivation in /-na-/ from the noun. As all adjectives, it is expected to show i-mutation, although that does not become visible from the attested form.
[AH.B.]