/hartuwi(ya)-/, “*187”-tu-wa/i-i-
‘dear, beloved (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2415
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hartuwi(ya)-/, “*187”-tu-wa/i-i-
‘dear, beloved (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in inscriptions from Maraş and Tabal, dating from the mid-9th to the late 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | /hartuwis/ | “*187”-tu-wa/i-i-sá | EREĞLİ 2, §2 (Tabal) |
| dat./loc. sg. c. | /hartuwiya/ | *187 | MARAŞ 4, § 11 (Maraş) |
Contra Poetto 2002a:398f., the present word is unlikely to belong to the neuter noun /hartuwi(ya)-/ ‘relatives’, cf. the discussions of the meaning and the stem below.
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this adjective follows that of its derivational base /hartu-/ ‘descendant, clan’, and the word family finds further support in the cognates around CLuw. ḫartuwatt(i)- ‘descendance’ (CLL:61) and Hittite ḫartu- ‘offspring, descendance’ (HED Ḫ:202). The glide /w/ represents an epenthesis between the nominal stem-final /-u-/ and the suffix /-i(ya)-/.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word is inferred from its link with /hartu-/ ‘descendant, clan’ and its contexts of attestation, but the semantic assignment remains tentative. In EREĞLİ 2, §2, the most likely interpretation sees /hartuwi(ya)-/ as a postposed modifier to /taskwar(i)-/ ‘earth’, with which it formally agrees: “˹(TERRA)˺”ta-sà-kwa/i+ra/i-sa-pa-wa/i+ra/i “*187”-tu-wa/i-i-sá INFRA-na-na i-zi-ia+ra/i, approx. /taskwaris=ba=wa=di hartuwis annan izziyadi/, meaning ‘(The … sky is made above,) but the dear earth is made below’ (cf. Poetto 2002a:398f.).
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1.1.5Stem
The present word is an adjective (pace Poetto 2002a:399) in /-i(ya)-/ derived from the noun /hartu-/ ‘descendant, clan’.
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1.1.6Derivatives
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /hartu-/.