/lalamma-/, CAPERE-ma-
‘contract’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 2564
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/lalamma-/, CAPERE-ma-
‘contract’1.1.1Transmission
Both attestations of this lexeme originate from Tabal and can be dated to the mid- or late 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | /lalamman=za/ | CAPERE-ma-za-a | KULULU 2, §2 (Tabal) |
| “CAPERE”-ma-z[a] | BULGARMADEN, §13 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Use of the logogram CAPERE (sign *41) ties the word securely to the word family around /la-/ ‘to take’. Thus, the phonological interpretation is based on evidence from other members of the word family as well as further cognates such as CLuw. lalām(i)- ‘itemised list, receipt’ (CLL:122, HEG L:22f.) with a different stem formation and meaning (see discussions of meaning and stem below). The ending of the CLuw. cognate shows it to be common gender, whereas the HLuw. form is clearly a neuter, as is obvious from the neuter particle /-sa, -za/ attached to the nom./acc. sg. forms, cf. Melchert 2003b:186f.
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1.1.4Meaning
In HLuw., the present lexeme is attested in funerary inscriptions, and its meaning was first suggested by Hawkins 1980c:221 for the context in KULULU 2, §2, also fitting well in BULGARMADEN, §13. As pointed out in Hawkins 2000a:525, the meaning cannot be the same as that proposed for CLuw. lalām(i)-, i.e. ‘itemised list, receipt’, because it would not make sense in the context of a funerary inscription.
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1.1.5Stem
The formation of the present lexeme has seen some debate among scholars not least due to the similar looking, but differently formed CLuw. lalām(i)- ‘itemised list, receipt’ (cf. e.g. Melchert 2003b:179). Starke 1990a:269f. (similarly HEG L:22f.), following Hawkins 1980c:221, regards it as a /-mma/i-/ participle of the reduplicated verb /lala-/ ‘to take’, whose neuter form underwent substantivization.
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For the derivational base, see HLuw. /lala-(i)/.