/hawatt(i)-/, OVIS-ti-
‘sheep (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, Common gender
- ID
- 222
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hawatt(i)-/, OVIS-ti-
‘sheep (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon found in an inscription of the late 8th century BCE (Poetto 2002a:398).
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | /hawattinzi/ | OVIS-ti-zi | EREǦLİ 2 §3 (Karkamiš) |
The end of the sentence, in which the word OVIS-ti-zi is attested, is missing. The grammatical interpretation regarding the case is not assured, but the nominative is assigned here based on the contextual interpretation; the two previous sentences are intransitive and thus the third one is assumed to be intransitive as well.
[D.S.] [I.Y.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Poetto 2002a:400 interprets the lexeme OVIS-ti- as a derivative in -t/di- from the substantive /haw(i)-/ c. ‘sheep’. He compares /huhad(i)-/ c. ‘grandfather’ beside /huha-/ c. ‘id.’ and, therefore, suggests no semantic difference between OVIS-ti- and its derivational base. Unlike in the lexeme for grandfather, the fortis quality of the alveolar is here posited, i.e. /-atti-/, on the basis of the etymological connection with CLuw. NINDAhawattanna/i- (a type of bread or pastry) attested in Hittite transmission. Since the lexeme /haw(i)-/ was originally an i-stem, the derivation in /-att(i)-/, i.e. Luw. /haw(i)-/ → /haw-att(i)-/, must be considered late. This shows that Luwian /haw(i)-/ was functioning as a mutated stem on derivational grounds, whence the glide /i̯/ does not appear, i.e. **/hawiyatt(i)-/.
Therefore, Hieroglyphic Luwian OVIS-ti- is phonologically interpreted as /hawatt(i)-/.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning ‘sheep’ suggested by Poetto 2002a:400 is not assured by the context, but, based on the logogram, the meaning of the lexeme is surely connected to ‘sheep’ or ‘small cattle’.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base of this lemma see HLuw. /haw(i)-/.