/irhattina/, FINES+HI-ti-i-na
‘abroad’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2345
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/irhattina/, FINES+HI-ti-i-na
‘abroad’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Karkamiš, dating to the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /irhattina/ | FINES+HI-ti-i-na | KARKAMIŠ A6, §3 (Karkamiš) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this adverb is reasonably clear, since it belongs to the word family around the noun /irh(i)-/ ‘border’, but the proposed shape is provisional with respect to its ending. The spelling may reflect either /irhattina/ or /irhattin/,But not */arhattina/ vel sim., as the sign 〈hi〉 added to FINES represents a reading aid and ties this word to /irh(i)-/ ‘border’. with the cognate noun CLuw. irḫatta- ‘row, circuit’ supporting either. Since the Hittite adjective araḫzina- ‘external, foreign’ is likely an exact cognate (see Melchert 2002e:297 n. 3 following a suggestion by Hawkins and Poetto, already mentioned by Laroche 1960c:120), the shape assumed here is the more likely option, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
Alternatively, there may be no direct link to CLuw. irḫatta- ‘row, circuit’ or Hittite araḫzina- ‘external, foreign’, and instead the spelling may reflect /irhadin(a)/, see the discussions of the stems in /irha(l)l(i)-/ ‘frontier-post’ and /irhadi(ya)-/ (or /irhali(ya)-/) ‘border-marking’.
Outdated is the interpretation given by Laroche 1960c:120.His “arhitana-” is based on old readings used at the time of some of the HLuw. signs.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word is assigned on the basis of the link with /irh(i)-/ ‘border’, see Bossert 1951a:46, also cf. Laroche 1960c:120 and Hawkins 2000a:126. In the context, the author of the inscription boasts about how famous he was, and KARKAMIŠ A6, §3 reads: á-ma-za-ha-wa/i-ta á-lá/í-ma-za DEUS-ni-zi FINES+HI-ti-i-na (“PES2”)hi-i-nu-wa/i-tá, approx. /amman=za=ha=wa=tta alaman=za massaninzi irhattina hinuwanta/, translating as ‘The gods circulated (lit.: moved) my name abroad’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:124).
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1.1.5Stem
The adverb represents the lexicalised nom./acc. pl. neuter of the otherwise unattested adjective */irhattina/i-/ and is probably fully cognate with Hittite araḫzina ‘external, foreign’, cf. Melchert 2002e:297.
Alternatively, the word may have a more direct derivational connection with HLuw. /irha(l)l(i)-/ ‘frontier-post’ and HLuw. /irhali(ya)-/ ‘border-marking’.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /irh(i)-/.