/zilatta/, zi-la-ta
‘thereupon (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2478
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/zilatta/, zi-la-ta
‘thereupon (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon, and its sole attestation can be found in one of the Hama inscriptions, dating to the mid-9th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /zilatta/ | zi-la-ta | HAMA 4, A1§3 (Hama) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is provisional, for its sole attestation in HLuw. finds no further support in the form of cognates either in CLuw. or Hittite.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Appearing in one of the introductory clauses of a commemorative inscription, the word is used in a temporal sense, very likely with the same or similar meaning to HLuw. /ziladuwa/ ‘thereupon’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:405f.). It has cognate links to Hittite zila- ‘oracle result’ and HLuw. /zila/ ‘then’, which Rieken 2019b:309 connects via an earlier meaning ‘end’. However, a more detailed semantic appraisal so far remains out of grasp, because the preceding clause is partly destroyed and therefore unclear.
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1.1.5Stem
The lexeme appears to be derived from the adverb /zila/ ‘then’ (Hawkins 2000a:405f.), possibly constituting a neuter abstract in /-tta-/ (Rieken 2019b:316 after Starke 1990a:585 and Melchert 2014d:211).
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see PAnat. *zeh1-/*zī-.