PES-
‘to be located (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3055
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
PES-
‘to be located (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Aleppo, dating to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | /…/ | PES-i | BABYLON 1, §8 (Aleppo) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is unknown. The morphology of the 3sg. pres. ind. act. ending /-i/ and the intransitivity (cf. the discussion of the meaning below) of the verb is not compatible with any other of the known verbs using the same logogram, as noted by Hawkins 2000a:393. The logogram PES (sign *90) is otherwise found with the noun /pad(i)-/ ‘foot’ as well as several motion verbs such as /awi-(di)/ ‘to come’ and /uba-(i)/ ‘to bring’.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is assigned to this word mostly on the basis of its context and therefore to be understood as provisional (Yakubovich 2017e:s.v.). Noting which verbs are not compatible with the morphology of the attested form, Hawkins 2000a:393 cautiously connects the word to the motion verbs because of the logogram PES. BABYLON 1, §8 runs: kwa/i-a-za kwa/i-i-ta PES-i, approx. /kwan=za kwitta …-i/, meaning ‘(All that is mine …), where(ver) what(ever) is located?, (I gave it over to the Storm-god Tarhunt of Aleppo)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:392).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The verb takes the endings of the ḫi-conjugation, but remains opaque otherwise.
[AH.B.]