āršiya-(ti)
‘to cause to flow’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2159
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
āršiya-(ti)
‘to cause to flow’1.1.1Transmission
In Luwian context, the Kuwattalla tradition offers the sole attestation of the verb (LNS).
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1.1.2Forms
|
3pl. impv. act. |
a-ar-ši-ia-an-du |
KUB 35.39 i 25 |
(CTH 759, LNS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
Based on the occurrence of Hitt. ārš-(mi) in the preceding ritual description, [5987] Rosenkranz 1952a:93 suggested that the 3pl. impv. āršiyandu belongs to a cognate Luwian verb and means ‘let them flow’. This found general acceptance; cf. HW:384, [8155] Meriggi 1957b:58, [9096] DLL:32, [1254] Oettinger 1979a:187, [4687] HEG A-K:66, [1750] CLL:31, [4691] HED A, E, I:172, [5223] Lehrman 1998a:154f., HW2 A:342, [12008] HHw:s.v., [3032] EDHIL:209, [10630] Sasseville 2021a:23. However, most recently, Mouton, Puértolas Rubio & Yakubovich drew attention to the fact that āršiya-(ti) is a transitive verb with -ata as its object (contra [1750] CLL:31): (25)na-a-nu-um-pa-ta ma-a[d-du-ú]-in-zi ma-al-li-ti-in-zi (26)da-a-i-ni-in-zi x[...]x-al-la-an-zi a-ar-ši-ya-an-du “but now let the [ ]-alla- (holding) wine, honey and oil āršiya- them.” They suggest ‘to wash away’ as the meaning of the verb. A more literal translation would be ‘to cause to flow (away)’, highlighting better the analogy with the flowing wine, oil and honey in terms of performance and the causative function of the verb on the semantic side.
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1.1.5Stem
Until recently, scholars posited a stem in -i(ya)-(ti) in analogy with Hitt. aršiye/a-(mi) ‘to flow’. Meanwhile, [10630] Sasseville 2021a:23 has pointed out that the form āršiyandu with preserved -iya- is irreconcilable with this assumption, because this stem class never shows stem final -iya-, but always -i- (ibid. 133). Instead, he proposes a denominative verb in -a-(ti), based on a hypothesized common gender abstract noun in -iya- (‘flowing, flow’), which, in turn, is derived from reconstructed *ārši-(ti) ‘to flow’. Besides the morphological aspect described above, also the transitivity of the verb finds an explanation by way of this classification. Accordingly, the alternative ḫi-verb, i.e. āršiya-(i) also mentioned in [10630] Sasseville 2021a:23, is much less likely.
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For the lemma head see Luw. ārš-(ti).