/azzussattalla-/
‘to ride (on horses)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- Certainty
- high
- ID
- 206
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/azzussattalla-/, ANIMA.EQUUS-zú-sà-ta-la-
‘to ride (on horses)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in the inscription of BOHÇA, which belongs to the reign of Kurtis, dated to the late 8th century.
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1.1.2Forms
| Inf. | /azzussattallauna/ | “ANIMA.EQUUS<”>-zú-sà-ta-la-u-na | BOHÇA, §10 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
For the analysis of “ANIMA.EQUUS”-zú-sà-ta-la-u-na as containing only one word, see Hawkins 2000a:480.
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1.1.4Meaning ‘to ride (on horses)’
Hawkins 2000a:480 sees a verbal derivative of an agent noun referring to horses and suggests the meaning ‘to ride on horses’.
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1.1.5Stem
Due to the infinitive ending /-auna/, the lexeme /azzussattalla-/ belongs either to the category of factitive verbs in /-a-(ti)/ or of denominatives in /-a(i)-(di)/, cf. Neumann 2004a:23f. The latter is more likely see Melchert 2007b:2. For the semantics of factitives derived from agent nouns with the meaning ‘to act as the base noun prototypically acts’ or in this case ‘to act as a rider’, see Sasseville 2015a:289, 291.
The verb /azzussattalla-/ must be derived from an agent noun in /-attalla-/, i.e. *azzussattalla-, as suggested by Hawkins 2000a:480. Then, this agent noun was derived from the possessive adjective of the word for horse, *azzuwassa/i-, pace Hawkins ibid. Neumann 2004a:23 suggests a compound of azzu- ‘horse’ + *asant(i)- ‘sitting’ followed by a putative durative suffix *-ala-, dissimilated from *-ana-. Due to the doubtful nature of such a dissimilation in Hieroglyphic Luwian, we do not deem his analysis to be persuasive.
[D.S.]
For the base of the derivative, see lemma HLuw. /azzu-/.