/Tarhunti(ya)-/, (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ti-
‘of the Storm-god’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2853
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/Tarhunti(ya)-/, (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ti-
‘of the Storm-god’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested four times in inscriptions from Tabal and Maraş, dating maximally from the 9th to the 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | /Tarhuntis/ | (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ti-sá | KÜRTÜL, §1 (Maraş) |
| (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ti-i-sa | ÇİFTLİK, §5 (Tabal) | ||
| (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ti-i-sá | EĞRIKÖY, §1 (Tabal) | ||
| dat./loc. sg. | /Tarhuntiya/ | [(DEUS)]TONITRUS-hu-ti-iá | ÇALAPVERDİ 2, §1 (Tabal) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
The phonological interpretation of this adjective can be regarded as certain. While the word is not attested in fully syllabic spelling in HLuw. – and neither is its derivational base /Tarhunt-/ ‘(the Storm-god) Tarhunt’ – the name of this deity has found use in a number of other HLuw. words and can also be observed in several Anatolian languages. Furthermore, the suffix /-i(ya)-/ is well-known from many other lexemes, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is fully transparent, both from a morphological perspective and contextually. KÜRTÜL, §1 offers a good insight: EGO-mi la-sá la+ra/i+a-sa (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ti-sá SERVUS-lá/í-ti-sá?, approx. /ammu=mi Las Lalas Tarhuntis hudarlattis/, which represents the introductory clause to the inscription and means ‘I (am) La, (son of) Lali, servant of Tarhunt’, or more literally: ‘Tarhunt-ean servant’ (cf. e.g. Hawkins 2000a:272).
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1.1.5Stem
The word represents an adjective of appurtenance formed with the suffix /-i(ya)-/ (cf. Melchert 2003b:197), which undergoes i-mutation and subsequent contraction in the relevant forms. The derivational base is evidently /Tarhunt-/ rather than /Tarhunza-/, i.e. the adjective is built from the older stem form of the name, which is still in use for the oblique cases of the noun.
Although the name of the storm-god is ubiquitous, its adjective in /-i(ya)-/ is very rare. When possession is expressed, it is much more common to find either the genitive or the possessive adjective in /-assa/i-/ of the noun in that construction, for which see HLuw. /Tarhunt-/ under Forms. The meanings of all three forms, i.e. the genitive and the adjectives in /-i(ya)-/ and /assa/i-/, and their distribution largely depends on the productivity of the two suffixes as well as on the declining frequency of the genitive, cf. Bauer 2014a:164 and 169-175.
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For the lemma head, see HLuw. /Tarhunt-/.