/apparadi/, POST+ra/i-ti
‘afterwards’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3094
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/apparadi/, POST+ra/i-ti
‘afterwards’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the mid-8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /apparadi/ | POST+ra/i-ti | TOPADA, §16 (Tabal) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation follows Yakubovich 2017e:s.v. The innate ambiguities of the HLuw. writing system also permit other interpretations, e.g. /apparidi/ and /apparanti/. The latter is evidently assumed by Hawkins 2000a:457 (probably following Meriggi 1967b:125), who connects the word to the paradigm of origin of /apparanta/ ‘afterwards’, cf. CLuw. āpparant(i)- ‘future (adj.)’.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is proposed by Meriggi 1967b:125 without further comment apart from noting in parenthesis his assumed reading “apparanti”. The only attestation occurs in the historical narrative portion of TOPADA, where §16 concludes one part of the story: MAGNUS+ra/i-zi/a-pa-wa/i-mu EQUUS(ANIMA)-sa POST+ra/i-ti FINES+HI-zi/a (LITUUS)ti-ia+ra/i-tax, approx. /urazzas=ba=wa=mu azzuwassis apparadi irhinzi tiyaritta/, probably translating as ‘But the Chief of the Horses afterwards guarded the frontiers with me’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:453).
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1.1.5Stem
If correctly interpreted as /apparadi/, this indeclinable adverb represents the lexicalised abl./instr. of the adjective /appara/i-/ ‘lesser’. Taking into account the many idiosyncrases of the TOPADA inscription, it is possible that /apparadi/ should be counted among these and regarded as a variant of the much more frequently attested /apparanta/ ‘afterwards’.
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