/alada-/, “LOCUS”-tà-tà-
‘place’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2457
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/alada-/, “LOCUS”-tà-tà-
‘place’1.1.1Transmission
Attested twice, this lexeme can be found in inscriptions from Karkamiš and Cilicia, both dating to the 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. | /alada/ | [LOCUS]-la/i-lá/í | KARKAMIŠ A31+fragments, §6 (Karkamiš) |
| dat./loc. pl. | /aladanz/ | “LOCUS”-tà-tà-za | ÇINEKÖY, §8 (Cilicia) |
The reading of the passage at ÇINEKÖY, §8 does not follow the editio princeps by Tekoğlu & Lemaire 2000a:970, 986-988, who tentatively suggested 〈(“LOCUS”)pix-tà-za〉 at a time when the HLuw. word for ‘place’ was thought to resemble Hittite pēda- ‘place’ in some way. Their suggestion is superseded by the new reading offered by Yakubovich 2017c:7f.
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this noun is provisional, since no fully syllabic renditions have so far been found. Use of the logogram LOCUS (sign *201) strongly implies a link with the word family around /alant-/ ‘place’, and the syllabic signs attest to sweeping rhotacism and hypercorrection affecting intervocalic /d/ and /l/ (cf. Melchert 2003b:179-182). As with /alant-/, the quality of the second vowel is not entirely clear, and it may be /i/ after all, yielding /alida-/, see Yakubovich 2017c:8.Note that the rhotacized and hypercorrectly spelt 〈“LOCUS”-tà-tà-za〉 at ÇINEKÖY, §8 does not provide the incontrovertible proof for /a/ as it may seem, since the sign 〈tà〉 (*41) has been found to represent /di/ in some cases, in addition to the far more frequent /da/, cf. Simon 2019f:330f.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Despite its different stem formation and infrequent attestation, the meaning of this word seems clear. In the bilingual inscription ÇINEKÖY, §8 largely lacks the Phoenician counterpart to the HLuw. clause: kwa/i-pa-wa/i “LOCUS”-tà-tà-za za-ia (“FLUMEN”)sa-pa+ra/i-ni-wa/i-zi MAGNUS+RA/I.FONS.SCALPRUM-zi! á-sa-tá, approx. /kwippa=wa aladanz zaya Sabarniwanzi …-zi as(an)ta/, meaning ‘Indeed, in the places, these were the marshes of the river Sabri’ vel sim. (cf. Tekoğlu & Lemaire 2000a:972,Their analysis of the passage is rather different, since they take /alanz/ to represent a nom./acc. pl. (which only works when assuming an entirely different stem formation), instead of a dat./loc. pl., and therefore belonging together with the following demonstrative /zaya/ ‘these’. Hawkins 2017c:212f. and Oreshko 2019b:226-229). In the Phoenician version, the letters MQ remain, hinting at mqmm ‘places’ (see Tekoğlu & Lemaire 2000a:986), supporting the analysis.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
If the phonological interpretation of this word should turn out to be correct, it represents a root cognate to /alant-/ ‘place’ with a different stem-forming suffix (Yakubovich 2017c:8).
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /arla-/.