/wa/ittamuzza(/i)-/, wa/i-tá-mu-za
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2596
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/wa/ittamuzza(/i)-/, wa/i-tá-mu-za
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Maraş, probably dating to the 11th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | /wa/ittamuzza/ | wa/i-tá-mu-za | MARAŞ 8, §6 (Maraş) |
Hawkins 2000a:253 transliterates a more cautious 〈wa/i-tá?-mu?-za〉, but the signs are easily recognisable on the photograph.
While an analysis as an adjective in the nom./acc. pl. n. represents the most likely option, it is also possible that the word is a noun in the dat./loc. sg. instead.
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is partly unclear. Since it has yet to be etymologically connected to other words in HLuw. and beyond, its first vowel, represented in the underspecified 〈wa/i〉, cannot be determined for the moment.Some of the words beginning with CLuw. /watta°/ may perhaps turn out to be related, but they, too, remain without semantic interpretations so far, see CLL:267f. The use of 〈tá〉 suggests an unlenited dental (see Rieken 2010a:308f.), and the stem appears to end in one of the suffixes containing /-zza(/i)-/, for which cf. the discussion of the stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word remains in the dark due to a lack of an etymological connection. In its only context of attestation at MARAŞ 8, §6, it likely represents an adjective modifying the following neuter gender noun (see Hawkins 2000a:254): *a-wa/i-tá URBS+MI(-ni?) wa/i-tá-mu-za (VITIS)tu-wa/i-ri+i-sà! PRAE-i (PONERE)tu-wa/i-ha, approx. /a=wa=tta …-ni? wa(/i?)ttamuzza tuwarisa pari tuwahha/, meaning ‘I planted wa(/i?)ttamuzza vineyards for the town’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:254). However, it is also possible that the word is a noun instead, inflected as a dat./loc. sg., which would result in a translation such as ‘I planted vineyards for the wa/ittamuzza- (in) the town’ vel sim.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
If the word does in fact represent an adjective (cf. the discussions above), it seems to be a derivation in /-zza(/i)-/, a suffix that may be used to form comparatives and superlatives, see Yakubovich 2013b:166f. Alternatively and in case the word should be a noun, it would likely be a derivation in /-azza-/, a suffix forming common gender agent nouns (see Hajnal 2003a:193; cf. Sasseville 2014-2015a:119). The derivational base for either remains morphologically intransparent, however.
[AH.B.]