“UNUS?”-ta
‘alone (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2055
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
“UNUS?”-ta
‘alone (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the late 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
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indecl. |
/…/ |
“UNUS?”-ta |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
With just a single attestation and the use of a logogram in the spelling, the phonological form of this word in largely unclear. The logogram used is likely the number sign for the numeral ‘one’ (sign *380), whose shape is that of a single vertical line (Hawkins 2000a:480).As Hawkins notes, UNUS is not the only sign to consist of a single vertical line, but it provides the most sensible interpretation for BOHÇA, §13.
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1.1.4Meaning
With only a single attestation, the meaning of this word is somewhat uncertain. UNUS represents the most likely identification for the logographic sign used, and Hawkins 2000a:480 suggests a meaning such as ‘at one time, once’ vel sim. While this is possible, the context fits another related meaning even more easily, viz. ‘alone’ (Yakubovich 2017e). For the author of BOHÇA compares the substantial support he believes himself to be granted by the storm-god Tarhunt with the lack of the same for his forebears, and §13 runs: ˹a?˺-wa/i za-ti-i “TERRA”-sa-kwa/i+ra/i-i za-ti-i LOCUS-lá/í-ti-i 1(×)100 (ANIMA)CAPRA la-ha “UNUS?”-ta kwa/i-za, approx. /a=wa zatti taskwari zatti allanti … irwin lahha …-ta kwanza/, translating as ‘while I alone took 100 gazelles in this land, in this place’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:479). It is hence likely that the author boasts about the amount of gazelles he was able to take all by himself because of divine support.
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1.1.5Stem
Indeclinable, this adverb appears to end in /-a/, which would be an expected ending for an adverb, cf. Yakubovich 2015b:6.6.
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