/walliyazza-(i)/, BONUS-li-ia-za-
‘to favour’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2585
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/walliyazza-(i)/, BONUS-li-ia-za-
‘to favour’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested only once and can be found in an inscription from Malatya. The text is dated tentatively to the 11th or 10th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | /walliyazzanta/ | BONUS-li-ia-za-ta | IZGIN 1, §18 (Malatya) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Despite just a single attestation, the phonological interpretation of this lexeme can be seen as quite certain. Its spelling, which involves the logogram BONUS (sign *165) ties it securely to the word family around /walliya-(ti)/ ‘to rise’ and thereby to a cognate in CLuw. walli-(ti) ‘to raise’. Moreover, the verbal suffix /-zza-(i)/ is well-known from other formations.
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1.1.4Meaning
While clearly derived from the verb /walliya-(ti)/ ‘to rise’, the exact meaning of the present lexeme is difficult to assess. It occurs in the mostly fragmented bottom part of the IZGIN 1 stele, and the relevant clause §18 reads: *a-wa/i-tá 9?-zi-´ DEUS[-ni]-zi POST-ni a-tá BONUS-li-ia-za-ta, i.e. /a=wa=tta nuwinzi massaninzi appanni anta walliyazzanta/, which may mean ‘Nine gods rose (or: began to / would rise) behind (him)’. The suffix /-zza-/ has been proposed to have an iterative meaning in some contexts (e.g. Melchert 1989b:28; this would now be regarded as imperfective, cf. Melchert 2003b:205) and an inchoative meaning in others (e.g. CLL:50, Melchert 2003b:205 n. 32), but the present context provides too little for a full assessment.
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1.1.5Stem
The verb is a deverbal formation in /-zza-(i)/, whose derivational basis is /walliya-(ti)/ ‘to rise’. The function of the suffix cannot be assessed in the present case, because the context of attestation is too fragmentary to permit a cogent semantic interpretation (cf. also Sasseville 2021a:449f.).
Although none of the decisive forms are attested, the present verb can be assumed to inflect according to the ḫi-conjugation like other verbs in /-zza-/, see Sasseville 2021a:440f.
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For the derivational base, see HLuw. /walliya-(ti)/.