/hwisnam(i)-/, LEO-sa-na-mi-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2663
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hwisnam(i)-/, LEO-sa-na-mi-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
A hapax legomenon, this lexeme can be found once in an inscription from Amuq. It is dated tentatively to the 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. | /hwisnaminzi/ | LEO-sa-na-mi-zi | TELL TAYINAT 2, l. 2 frag. 3 (Amuq) |
Hawkins 2000a:373 interprets the attestation in TELL TAYINAT 2, l. 2 frag. 3 as a participle instead, but cf. the discussions under meaning and stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Despite just a single attestation, the phonological interpretation of this noun is reasonably certain. It belongs to the same word family as the noun /hwisar-/ ‘beast’ and the adjective /hwisnamay(a/i)-?/, which is derived from the present lexeme. Furthermore, its root has cognates in Hittite ḫuiš-/ḫuš-(mi) ‘to live, to survive’ and its derivatives.
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1.1.4Meaning
The sole attestation of this lexeme occurs in a largely broken context and any semantic assignment is therefore to be understood as but a suggestion. While the word is without doubt closely related to HLuw. /hwisar-/ ‘beast’, its precise meaning cannot be gauged until further attestations surface. Within its context, the word is a noun and constitutes the direct object of the verb /tuwahha/ ‘I put’, occurring immediately after it, thus perhaps ‘game (?), wild animals (?)’.
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1.1.5Stem
The lexeme under discussion is formed with the suffix /-am(i)-/, which denotes appurtenance (Melchert 2003b:195; Melchert 2014d:208f; Steer 2015a:53 n. 198).
The previous analysis of the attested form as a participle by Hawkins 2000a:373 is based on the erroneous conflation of the Luwian nominal suffix /-am(i)-/ and the participial suffix /-a-mma/i-/, which are spelt the same in HLuw.
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1.1.6Derivatives
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /hwisar-/.