/niyassattalla-/, (CRUS+CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ta-la-
‘successor’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2809
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/niyassattalla-/, (CRUS+CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ta-la-
‘successor’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax legomenon is attested in an inscription dating c. 800 BCE from Karkamiš.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | /niyassattallan/ | (CRUS+CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ta-la-na | KARKAMIŠ A15b, §13 (Karkamiš) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is quite secure, because it is based first and foremost on the fully syllabic spelling attested in KARKAMIŠ A15b, §13 and the most likely morphological structure derived from that. If analysed correctly, the stem formation involves three well-known suffixes whose phonological forms are certain; cf. the discussion of the stem below.
The shape of the word and use of the logogram CRUS+CRUS (sign *86) links it immediately to the verb /niyazza-/ ‘to pass down’ and the word family around it.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word was clear from the context at a very early stage, see Hrozný 1933a:66 and again Hrozný 1934a:229. The relevant context in KARKAMIŠ A15b, §13 runs: Ika-ma-ni-na-pa-wa/i-a (CRUS+CRUS)ní-ia-sa-ta-la-na MAGNUS+ra/i-nu-ha-a, approx. /Kamanina(n)=ba=wa/, translating as ‘I brought up Kamanina as successor’ (Hawkins 1979a:159 incl. n. 48).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The word is a noun in /-attalla-/ (Sasseville 2021a:85), a complex suffix consisting of the nominal suffix /-att(i)-/ and the agent noun suffix /-alla-/, which inflects without i-mutation, for which see Sasseville 2014-2015a:116f. It is derived from an otherwise unattested verbal stem */niyassa-/, showing the suffix /-ssa-/, which is used to form imperfective stems among other functions (cf. Sasseville 2021a:488f.).
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. */niya-/.