/arad(i)-/, ara/i-ti-
‘(a disaster)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2318
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/arad(i)-/, ara/i-ti-
‘(a disaster)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is attested three times in two inscriptions from Hama and Malatya, which date to the mid-9th and early or mid-8th century BCE respectively.
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1.1.2Forms
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acc. sg. |
/aradin/ |
ara/i-ti-na |
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coll. |
/arada/ |
a+ra/i-tà |
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ara/i-tà |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is not certain, because it does not belong to any known word family within HLuw., nor does it appear to have any cognates in the other Anatolian languages. The attestations in HAMA 4 record the spelling with 〈tà〉 (sign *41) rather than any of the other TA signs, which usually represents /da/, see Rieken 2008b:639.The different TI signs are fewer in number and do not appear to have been used for a similar distinction.
It is perhaps noteworthy that the attestations show different ways for coding the phonological string /ara-/ even in the same text (HAMA 4), by using 〈ara/i〉 (*133) on the one hand, and a combination of 〈a〉 (*450) and 〈+ra/i〉 (*383) on the other.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning suggested by Hawkins 2000a:406 (‘income, resources’) cannot be upheld, because the word occurs in the apodosis of a curse formula in ŞIRZI, §7, detailing the ill that is to befall a person harming the inscription.Hawkins 2000a:324 does not connect the occurrence in ŞIRZI to the HAMA 4 attestations.Instead, a new meaning from the semantic field of disasters is suggested, but it remains unclear what precisely it could be. In HAMA 4, a building inscription for a temple, the word occurs twice in the form of a collective. It is first used in the historical passage, detailing the previous state of the temple, which had not done well in earlier times, but the author of the inscription vows to protect it, promising to ensure that no /arada/ will befall the temple in his times.
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1.1.5Stem
Because of a lack of cognates, the morphological analysis of this lexeme is largely unclear, save for the fact that it is a common gender noun capable of forming collectives. One should also compare the root of HLuw. /ar-(ti)/.
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