/m(a)nahid-/, LITUUS+na-hi-i-tà
‘vision’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 2796
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/m(a)nahid-/, LITUUS+na-hi-i-tà
‘vision’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tell Ahmar, dating to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | /m(a)nahidi/ | LITUUS+na-hi-i-tà | TELL AHMAR 6, §18 (Tell Ahmar) |
For the sign 〈tà〉 (sign *41), Simon 2019f:327, 330f. proposes the interpretation /di/ (read: 〈tì〉).
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word can be seen as reasonably certain. Besides being part of a larger word family, the word appears to be morphologically transparent, cf. the discussion of the stem below. Just as its cognate /m(a)na-(di)/ ‘to see, look upon’, the noun /m(a)nahid-/ may or may not have a complex onset /mn-/ instead of /man-/.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word is assigned mainly on a morphological basis, since abstract nouns in /-ahid-/ are well-represented in the corpus, see Hawkins 2006a:26. The only context of attestation at TELL AHMAR 6, §18 supports the assignment, but cannot be said to force it: *a-wa/i-ma-sa LITUUS+na-hi-i-tà (VIA)hu-sa-la-hi-tà-ha wa/i+ra/i-li-tà, approx. /a=wa=mu=as m(a)nahidi husallahidi warallida/, meaning ‘He adopted me in vision and readiness to run’ (cf. Hawkins 2006a:15, cf. also /hussallahid-/ ‘readiness to run’).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The word is a neuter abstract noun in /-ahid-/, cf. Hawkins 2006a:26. It derives from the also attested verb /m(a)na-(di)/ ‘to see, look upon’.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /m(a)na-(di)/.