/hudarlahid-/(?), SERVUS-
‘servante (of a household)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2100
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hudarlahid-/(?), SERVUS-
‘servant (of a household)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the mid-8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
|
nom./acc. sg. |
/hudarlahi=sa/(?) |
SERVUS-sa |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Attested only once and almost entirely logographically, this noun is fixed only tentatively with a phonological interpretation. The suggested shape is proposed by Yakubovich (pers. comm.) on the basis of the grammatical form and the semantics of the context.
The word may or may not be related to or indeed belong to the same paradigm as a similar looking word in a clause further down in the same inscription: 〈SERVUS-wa/i〉 at TOPADA, §25, whose exact shape is likewise opaque.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
It is suggested here that the word represents a semantic collective of ‘servant’, as for instance expressed in German Dienerschaft ‘servants (of a household)’. The word is attested only once, and the context in TOPADA, §15 runs: *274-ia-pa-wa/i FEMINA.MANUS-za/i-ha SERVUS-sa (“PES”)u-pa-tax, approx. /…-ya=ba=wa wanatta=niwaranninza=ha hudarlahi=sa ubatta/, meaning ‘But he (scil. an aforementioned enemy) brought the booty and the female children as servant(s)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:453).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
If the phonological interpretation of the word should indeed be correct, it represents an abstract noun in /-ahid-/ (cf. e.g. Melchert 2003b:198) formed from the concrete noun /hudarl(i)-/ ‘servant’. As a neuter, the nom./acc. sg. of the abstract noun is marked with the neuter particle /-sa, -za/, which is the only part that is expressed syllabically in the attestation.
If the word should turn out to have a different phonological shape, its morphological structure will require reassessment.
[AH.B.]
For the derivational base, see HLuw. /hudarl(i)-/.