CAPUT.LINGUA+x.CULTER-la-

This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the late 8^th century BCE.

[A.P.]

dat./loc. sg.

/.../

CAPUT.LINGUA+x.CULTER-la-i

KIRŞEHİR, §11 (Tabal)

The string of signs at KIRŞEHİR, §11 has been interpreted in various ways. In their editio princeps, Akdoğan & Hawkins 2009a:9 suggest 〈(CAPUT)la-i-la-ia-sà-sa〉 [sic!]. In their reworked English edition of the text, Akdoğan & Hawkins 2010a:3, 7 changed it to 〈CAPUT.LINGUA+x.CULTER(?)-la-i-sà-sa〉 [sic!], referring to a similar looking verb found in İSTANBUL 2, C2, HLuw. CAPUT.CULTER.LINGUA+x-i- ‘(unknown)’ (see Taş & Weeden 2011a:56, 58f.) and noting the re-reading of what they had assumed to be 〈i〉 as 〈ia〉. Yakubovich 2017ereanalyses the string as two words: 〈CAPUT(-)la-i-la-ia sà-sa〉 [sic!], in which the noun may be acephalic or not. The present analysis follows a path between those suggested with reading the noun as 〈CAPUT.LINGUA+x.CULTER(?)-la-i〉 (or should that be 〈-la-^-i〉?)I.e. with a final sign 〈i〉, not 〈ia〉, since no bottom double bars are visible. followed by 〈sà-sa〉, the 2sg. impv. form of HLuw. /sasa-⁽ⁱ⁾/ ‘to release’. The final 〈-i〉 of the noun is taken as the dat./loc. sg. ending here (cf. the discussion of the stem below), but it may instead be an end-of-word marker, since the text features many of these.

[A.P.] [AH.B.]

The semantics of the present noun are unclear, not least because most of the phonological form of the word has so far remained in the dark. The clause at KIRŞEHİR, §11 runs: CRUS₂-nú-pa-wa/i-˹ta˺ tá-ti-na ha+ra/i-za^?-i-´ *336^?-na-na INFRA^? CAPUT.LINGUA+x.CULTER-la^-i sà-sa, approx. /nanun=ba=wa=tta tadin harzai usinan zanta …-la sasa/, possibly meaning ‘Now, release the father to the CAPUT…-la- down in front of the harzai-, (support my father this year, as you’ve declared)’ (cf. Akdoğan & Hawkins 2010a:3f., 7).

[AH.B.]

Largely unclear. If the analysis of the form attested at KIRŞEHİR, §11 is correct as a dat./loc. sg., the word is likely a stem in /-ai(ya)-/. Also possible, however, is an a-stem, if the final /-i/ is taken as a merely graphemic addition.

[AH.B.]