/niyasha-/, (CRUS.CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ha-
‘procession’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2808
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/niyasha-/, (CRUS.CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ha-
‘procession’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice, in a 10th or 9th century BCE inscription from Karkamiš and in a mid-8th century BCE inscription from Tabal.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /niyashan/ | (CRUS.CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ha-na | KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §16 (Karkamiš) |
| abl./instr. | /niyashadi/ | CRUS.CRUS | TOPADA, § 23 (Tabal) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is reasonably clear, because it belongs to the word family deriving from the otherwise unattested verb */niya-/, linked among other things through consistent use of the logogram CRUS.CRUS (sign *86). Moreover, its morphology is clear as a noun in /-sha-/, see the discussion of the stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning was assigned by Hawkins 1980d:127f., based first and foremost on the context of KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §16: *a-wa/i-mi-ta *a-mi-i-na (DOMINUS)na-i-ni-i-na (DEUS)kar-hu-ha-si-na (DEUS)ku+AVIS-pa-si-ha (CRUS.CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ha-na LITUUS+na-ha, approx. /a=wa=mi=tta ammin nannin Karhuhassin Kubabassin=ha niyashan manaha/, translating as ‘I saw for myself the procession of my master(s) (the gods) Karhuha and Kubaba’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:103). Further support for this semantic interpretation comes from the morphology of the word, as the suffix /-sha-/ builds deverbal abstract nouns, see already Starke 1979a:259 n. 55.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The word is a common gender noun formed with /-sha-/ (Starke 1979a:259 n. 55). The suffix is typically used to derive abstract nouns from verbs, and even though the putative verbal base */niya-/ ‘to follow’ vel sim. has so far remained unattested in HLuw., it served as a basis for at least two further derivatives, viz. the verb /niyazza-(i)/ ‘to pass on’ and /niyassattalla-/ ‘successor’. It is possible that the verb /na-/, whose meaning may be ‘to lead, to drive’, is a root cognate of the unattested verb */niya-/, representing the full grade formation.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. */niya-/.