/zalan/, za-la-na
‘aside (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2477
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/zalan/, za-la-na
‘aside (?)’1.1.1Transmission
Attested six times, this lexeme can be found in inscriptions in Karkamiš, the Commagene, and Tell Ahmar in the far south of the HLuw. area. The relevant texts date to Iron Age Luwian between the 10th and 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /zalan/ | za-la-na | KARKAMIŠ A13a-c, a§3 (Karkamiš) |
| BOYBEYPINARI 2, IIIA §14 (Commagene) | |||
| ANCOZ 7, C§5 (Commagene) | |||
| ALEPPO 3, §3 | |||
| TELL AHMAR 6, §16 (Tell Ahmar) | |||
| [...]-la-na | ANCOZ 8, §2 (Commagene) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is reasonably secure despite a lack of direct cognates in the other Anatolian languages that use a different writing system. Within HLuw., the word is closely connected to /zala/, likewise a preverb.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Within the HLuw. corpus, this lexeme is found as a preverb solely with the verb /tu(wa)-(i)/ ‘to put’ (thus already Poetto 1980b:129f.) and mostly used in the protases of curse formulae in phrases of the type “or (whoever) puts it ZALAN”. For that reason, Hawkins 2000a:357 understands it to denote “an offensive act” that can be executed against borders, cities, and objects such as statues. As a possible interpretation for /zalan/, one could suggest ‘aside’, and /zalan tu(wa)-/ could hence mean ‘to put aside, to shift’.
[AH.B.] [I.Y.]
1.1.5Stem
The lexeme /zalan/ is clearly related to /zala/, likewise a preverb, through not necessarily derived from it. Rieken 2019b:310 n. 2 suggests that /zala/ and /zalan/ may relate to one another in the same way as Hittite /anda/ and /andan/ and similar pairs, for whose meanings and etymologies see Boroday & Yakubovich 2018a:20.
Outdated is the tentative analysis of the word as a noun by Poetto 1980b:129f.
Another suggestion (not followed here) by Yakubovich (reported as pers. comm. in Sasseville 2021a:413f.) views the present word as /zallan/, related to CLuw. zala- ‘trot’ and HLuw. /zallall(a)-/ ‘cart’.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see PAnat. *zeh1-/*zī-.