/mari/, (“ANNUS”)mara/i-i
‘during (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 2695
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/mari/, (“ANNUS”)mara/i-i
‘during (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in an inscription from Cilicia, dating to the early 7th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /mari/ | (“ANNUS”)mara/i-i | KARATEPE 1 (Ho.), §48 (Cilicia) |
| mara/i | KARATEPE 1 (Hu.), §48 (Cilicia) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word was at first tentatively suggested by Melchert 1988a:38 n. 14, but is more certain now than it was at the time. The value of the syllabic sign 〈mara/i〉 (sign *462) was for a long time subject to scholarly debate, see e.g. Melchert 1988a:38 n. 14, Hawkins 2000a:36f., Yakubovich 2002a:191, but can be considered settled now. The underspecified second vowel of the sign is made plain by the additional 〈-i〉 at KARATEPE 1 (Ho.), §48, strongly suggesting an ending in /-i/ for this word.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word used to be somewhat opaque, both due to the uncertain phonological interpretation as well as the differently constructed Phoenician version of the same context in the bilingual inscription KARATEPE 1.The first analysis of the clause by Bossert 1953a:315 was hampered by several words being unknown still at the time. Melchert 1988a:38 n. 14 compares Hittite meya(n)ni- ‘extent (?)’, a noun used with temporal and spatial extensions, but likewise of somewhat unclear meaning (cf. CHD L-M:229-234 and HED M:112-116, EDHIL:569-571). Where the HLuw. version uses /ussi mari/ ‘during (?) the year’, the Phoenician version employs zbḥ ymm ‘periodic/annual sacrifice’. KARATEPE 1 (Ho.), §48 reads: wá/í-na i-zi-i-sa-tú-na CRUS-ia FLUMEN-pari-i-sá OMNIS.MI-i-sá (“ANNUS”)u-si (“ANNUS”)mara/i-i (BOS.ANIMA)wa/i-wa/i-sa (“*486”)kwa/i-tú-na-ha (“OVIS.ANIMA〈”〉)há-wa/i-sá (“VITIS”)há〈+ra/i〉-wá/í (OVIS.ANIMA)há-wá/í-i-sá, approx. /wa=an izzistuna taya habadis tanimis ussi mari wawis kwaduna=ha hawis harri=wa hawis/, meaning ‘The entire river-land will begin to honour him: during (?) the year one bull and at the cutting one sheep, (and) at the crushing one sheep’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:54, 64; Bauer 2020a:56).
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1.1.5Stem
The word is likely an adverb and hence indeclinable, but this cannot be proved on the basis of the attestations known so far. Thus, future finds may reveal it to be an adjective after all (probably in /-i(ya)-/ and to be agreeing with the preceding dat./loc. sg. /ussi/ at KARATEPE 1, §48.
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