ḫāzza-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1973
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ḫāzza-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The form appears in a song incipit cited in the Ištanuwa festival.
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1.1.2Forms
| 2sg. impv. act. (?) | ḫa-a-az-za | KUB 25.38 obv.? 8’ | (CTH 773, MS?) |
Under the assumption that the clause in the song incipit is complete, the morphological analysis is a plausible option (Yakubovich 2017d), but the presupposition is not assured. Cautiously DLL:45, CLL:67, HHw:s.v. leave the word without annotation. – Cf. also ḫa-az-za-[ at KUB 35.97, 9’.
[E.R.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The short incipit runs as follows: [ ]-x-ta-du-tar ḫa-az-za (KUB 25.38 obv.? 8’). In the sentence initial particle chain, =du is the dat. sg. of the 3rd person pronoun and =tar is a local particle. Lacking any informative context, nothing can be said about the semantics of the putative verb.
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1.1.5Stem
If indeed ḫazza is a verb form, then it is likely that it contains the imperfective suffix -zza-(i), but it must be admitted that the word final -zza is rather an argument for its identification as a verb.
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