ku-INFRA
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2775
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
ku-INFRA
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in two inscriptions from Boğazköy and Konya, both probably dating to the 13th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /…/ | ku-INFRA | YALBURT frag. E, §3b (Konya) |
| SÜDBURG, §3 (Boğazköy) |
Perhaps the signs should that read 〈KU.INFRA〉, since logograms preceded by phonetic spellings are rare in HLuw., cf. Poetto 1993a:58.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is unknown; cf. also the issues around the transliteration of the word mentioned above. The logogram INFRA (sign *57, also read SUB) suggests at least a semantic connection with the adverbs HLuw. /annan/ ‘under’ and HLuw. /zanta/ ‘down’, and perhaps also a phonological link with either one, although this remains hypothetical for now.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word appears to be an adverb in preverbal function, but with both attestations occurring in less than clear contexts, its meaning has so far remained in the dark, cf. Hawkins 1995a:80. Scholars have altogether refrained from translating the context at YALBURT frag. E, §3b fully: za/i-i(a) x ku-INFRA FORTIS-tá, approx. /zaya … muwanta/, perhaps meaning ‘(I conquered the enemy force in the town X … of Muwahhattussa. The … which were mine,) they conquered these …’ (cf. Hawkins 1993a:68f.); the text breaks off immediately after. Depending on the interpretation of the context, suitable meanings for the word under discussion may be ‘back, again’, ‘from below’, or ‘down (to the last person)’ vel sim., but all of these suggestions remain hypothetical until further evidence is found.
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