“LOQUI”-da-
‘(word of speaking)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, neuter
- Certainty
- high
- ID
- 229
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
“LOQUI”-da-
‘(word of speaking)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon attested in the KAYSERİ inscription dated to the reign of Wasusarma (740-730 BCE).
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /...-dan=za/ | “LOQUI”-tà-zà-’ | KAYSERİ, §20 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of the word behind the logogram can be hypothetically /maradan=za/; cf. /maratta-/ and /maraT(i)-/ (with logogram LOQUI). However, since there are other lexemes with different roots, which are written with the Logogram L.22 (LOQUI), it is best not to reconstruct anything for this lexeme.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The context of “LOQUI”-tà-zà-’ is different from the one, in which the lexeme maratta- is used. In this case, “LOQUI”-tà-zà-’ refers to the following direct speech and is the direct object of the verb /assazza-/ ‘to say, pronounce’. Unfortunately, the inscription breaks off shortly after the beginning of the direct speech, which prevents us from determining the precise semantics of “LOQUI”-tà-zà-’. Hawkins 2000a:475 suggests tentatively the meaning ‘word’.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
Because of the new reading of the sign <tà> /da/, “LOQUI”-tà-zà-’ cannot represent the same lexeme as /maratta-/ n. (Rieken 2008b:644).
[D.S.]
For the uncertain derivational base see Luw. */mar-(ti)/.