/asti(ya)-/, *460-ti-
‘bewitched (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2434
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/asti(ya)-/, *460-ti-
‘bewitched (?)’1.1.1Transmission
A hapax legomenon, this lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Amuq with a tentative dating to the 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. c. | /astinzi/ | *460-t[i]-zi | TELL TAYINAT 2, 3§i (Amuq) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme had remained entirely in the dark for a long time, until Hawkins (cf. e.g. Hawkins 2000a:547) linked it to the noun HLuw. /asta(/i)-/ ‘(an act of witchcraft)(?)’,Then understood to mean ‘hunger’. which is spelt using the same logogram *460, but likewise a hapax legomenon. Since the interpretation of the noun is tentative, it follows that the shape proposed for the present lexeme is also to be taken with caution. It very probably constitutes an adjective in /-i(ya)-/, which is well-known from many other formations, cf. the discussion of the meaning below.
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1.1.4Meaning
The semantic interpretation of /asti(ya)-/ rests, first and foremost, on its derivational base /asta(/i)-/ ‘(an act of witchcraft)(?)’ and is therefore likewise tentative. The two words were long assumed to belong to the same paradigm (see e.g. Melchert 1988a:40, who suggest it to mean ‘famines’), but the context of attestation can more easily be interpreted when 〈*460-t[i]-zi〉 is analysed as a substantivized adjective. TELL TAYINAT 2, 3§i reads: wa/i-[x] *460-t[i]-zi CORNU+RA/I-ti-zi i-zi-i-tà (DEUS)PES2-sa REX-ti-sá, approx. /wa=… astinzi suraTinzi izzida Iyas hantawattis/, meaning ‘He made the bewitched(?) satiated, (the god) King Ea’.The equation of CORNU+RA/I-ti-zi with HLuw. /suTir(i)-/ ‘greed’, tentatively proposed by Hawkins 2000a:372, is void. Further evidence is required to prove the analysis.
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1.1.5Stem
If the interpretation of the present lexeme as an adjective is correct, it constitutes a denominal form in /-i(ya)-/ derived from the noun /asta(/i)-/ ‘(an act of witchcraft)(?)’, whose exact stem has so far remained opaque. As all adjectives in HLuw., it is subject to i-mutation in the common gender forms.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /asta(/i)-/.