/malwa/, ma-lu-wa/i
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2031
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/malwa/, ma-lu-wa/i
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested three times in inscriptions from Emirgazi, dating to the 13th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word can be regarded as certain, because CLuw. features two cognates, the common gender noun [X] malwara- and the neuter gender [X] 
malwan-, both also without a semantic interpretation.
Outdated is the suggestion by Eichner 1985a:7-10 that the word is to be taken together with the preceding logogram STELE and that /malwa-/ represents the word for ‘stele’, see Hawkins 1995a:97.
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1.1.4Meaning
The semantics of this word have so far remained beyond our reach, not least because the word occurs three times in largely identical clauses.Based on the erroneous reading †〈(STELE)ma-lu-wa/i〉, Eichner 1985a:7-10 proposed the meaning ‘sign, stele’ vel sim., which cannot be upheld under the correct reading.EMİRGAZİ 1A, §19 runs: ma-pa-wa/i *414.OVIS-za/i kwa/i-tá-za/i STELE ma-lu-wa/i CRUS, approx. /man=ba=wa …-anz kwattanz wani=za malwa tai/, perhaps translating as ‘If for which (cult objects) a stele (or: stelae?) stands in a malwa- manner (?), (if anyone should erase them)’ (cf. Hawkins 1995a:89).Hawkins interprets some of the forms differently, reading approx. /man=ba=wa …-nzi kwattanz wanidanz malwa tai/, translating ‘But if for which stelae the *414-sheep stand malwa’, which seems a less good fit from a semantic point of view.
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1.1.5Stem
The HLuw. word appears to be an indeclinable adverb, positioned immediately before the verb in the contexts of attestation. Without further semantic information, any morphological assessment remains hypothetical.
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