CURRUS.HWI-

This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the mid-8^th century BCE.

[A.P.]

3sg. pret. act.

/…/

CURRUS.HWI-tax

TOPADA, §7 (Tabal)

The reading of the attestation at TOPADA, §7 must be deemed highly tentative, as the second sign is uncertain. Indeed, Hawkins 2000a:453, 456 transcribes the string as 〈CURRUS(-)x-ta_x〉, noting that x appears to resemble the sign SCALPRUM (*268), following an earlier suggestion by Hrozný 1933a:359f. incl. n. 7.

However, this is not the only possibility. In fact, the uncertain sign x also looks very much like *311.Other attestations are not helpful for establishing the phonetic value of *311, with the exception of TELL AHMAR, frag. 6, which has 〈FLUMEN(-)*311^?-pi-na〉 and where *311 can be identified confidently. Moreover, it may be consider to represent a fully phonetic spelling with determinative, i.e. 〈(FLUMEN)ha_x-pi-na〉, /habin/, thus ascribing a tentative value /ha/ to the sign *311. However, it still lacks confirmation from another attestation.

A variation of the present interpretation, viz. 〈(CURRUS)HWI-ta_x〉, was first suggested by Woudhuizen 2007a:26, 31 and followed by Weeden 2010b:50f., regarding the uncertain sign to be 〈hwa/i〉 (*508). However, the status of CURRUS remains unknown at present, it may be a determinative or represent part of the phonological shape of the word. Only further data can decide the matter.

[A.P.] [AH.B.]

The meaning is assigned tentatively (Yakubovich 2017e ‘to raid’, d´Alfonso 2019a:136 ‘to rush’), because the only context of attestation occurs in an inscription with many challenges. Various meanings have been suggested for this verb before,E.g. “il est parti en voiture” by Hrozný 1933a:359f., the lexically partly erroneous “drove up against me” by Woudhuizen 2007a:26, and the rather more likely “drove his chariot to my border” by Weeden 2010b:50. but a tentative ‘to raid (?)’ appears to be the best fit for now from a contextual viewpoint. TOPADA, §7 reads: pa+ra/i-za_x-ta_x-sí^?-sa₆-˹x˺-wa/i-mu-ta_x FINES+HI (CURRUS)HWI-ta_x, approx. /Parzantassis=…=wa=mu=tta irhi …-Ta/, meaning ‘The ParzanteanFor the translation of this ethnicon as ‘Phrygian’, see d´Alfonso 2019a. raided (?) my border, (and he went with all his horses and the army and raised his own border)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:453, d´Alfonso 2019a:136).

[AH.B.]

Unclear. The word may perhaps be etymologically related to /hwiya-⁽ⁱ⁾/ ‘to run’, but this remains an entirely hypothetical connection for now.

[AH.B.]