PRAE-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 3056
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
PRAE-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Tabal, dating to the mid-8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | /…/ | PRAE-sa8 | KULULU 4, §16 (Tabal) |
The attestation occurs at the beginning of the clause at KULULU 4, §16 and hosts a string of clitics beginning with the connective 〈-pa〉, i.e. /=ba/ ‘but’.
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
With the word represented mainly logographically, its phonological interpretation remains obscure, not least because its meaning is difficult to grasp, cf. the discussions below.
The logogram PRAE (sign *14) is usually employed for the word family around HLuw. /pari/ ‘before’; it is not clear if the same phonetic value should be assumed here.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word has yet to be fixed with a meaning. If the choice of PRAE should signify a link with the word family around the adverb /pari/ ‘before’, it may mean ‘the former, the aforementioned’ vel sim. The top of the stele of KULULU 4, §15-16 reads: za-wa/i STELE Ihu-li-sa4 PONERE-ta Iru-wa/i-sa8 FRATER.LA-sa8 INFANS.NI-sa8 PRAE-sa8-pa-wa/i (“*476”)LOCUS-li-ia-ta, approx. /za=wa wani=za Hulis tuwatta Ruwas…-nas nimuwizzas …-s=ba=wa aliyatta/, meaning ‘Huli, the son of Ruwa’s brother, put this stele (up), and/but PRAE2 (i.e. the former?) (was?) buried’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:446).The verbal ending seems to be a 3sg. pret. act., but depending on the meaning of the clause, it may well have to be interpreted as medio-passive. The endings of the medio-passive are optional for the preterite, cf. Yakubovich 2015b:6.5.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
Unclear. The word may either be a common gender noun or an adjective inflected as a common gender. The derivational base may or may not be part of the word family around /pari/ ‘before’.
[AH.B.]