/zam(m)a(n)t(i)-/
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2545
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/zam(m)a(n)t(i)-/
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
Attested once in the HLuw. corpus, this hapax legomenon can be found in one of the Karkamiš inscriptions, dating to around 800 BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | /zam(m)a(n)tin/ | za-ma-ti-i-na-´ | KARKAMIŠ A15b, §23 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The proposed phonological interpretation is tentative. While the spelling of the word as attested in KARKAMIŠ A15b, §23 is expressive enough, it is not at all clear whether or not the word has any cognates in the other Anatolian languages; see the discussion of the meaning and stem below. In fact, the spelling may also represent a stem such as /zam(m)aT(i)-/. Only the shape of the ending of the acc. sg. c. is secure because of its wide attestation.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
This lexeme occurs in one of the younger inscriptions from Karkamiš, KARKAMIŠ A15b, §23, on the top part of what appears to have served as the basis for a stele: [z]a-pa-wa/i “SCALPRUM”-su-na za-ma-ti-i-na-´ wa/i-mi-LITUUS-ha, i.e. /zan=ba=wa assun zammaTin wammihha/ ‘I found this zammanti- stone’. It is possible that the word is related to the CLuw. adjective 
zammant(i)-, unless the meaning as proposed there ‘damaged’, turns out to be true, in which case a connection between the two words would be unlikely, because a negatively connotated stone would not have been acceptable as a base for a stele.
[AH.B.]