/urazza(/i)-/, MAGNUS+ra/i-zi/a-na-

The lexeme is attested only once in an inscription from Tabal, dating to the 8^th century BCE.

[AH.B.]

acc. sg. c.

/urazza/in/

MAGNUS+ra/i-za/i-na

TOPADA §32 (Tabal)

The meaning was first assigned by Hawkins 2000a:150, who suggested reading the spelling with MAGNUS as /urazza-/ and connected it to its cognate CLuw. urazza-. The hypothesis that the CLuw. cognate should be an adjective ending in -zza- was first voiced by Starke 1990a:594, although he refrained from assigning a meaning, which, in turn, was later done by Melchert (CLL:244 ‘great’).

Yakubovich 2013b:160 suggests that the word is a superlative in both varieties of Luwian, derived from the simple adjective /ura/i-/ ‘great’;Hutter 2003a:219 notes that it is also used as a short form of the deity name for the sun-god in CLuw. the relevant attestation is TOPADA §32: á-la/i-ha-wa/i-mu wa/i+ra/i-lí-na MAGNUS+ra/i-zi/a-na ARMA+RA/I.FULGUR-na [...]-ti, approx. /ala=ha=wa=mu warallin urazza/in …-n …-ti/, meaning ‘Indeed, I (will make) for myself my own great(est) victory’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:454, 459). The context strongly suggests that the adjective is to be understood as a superlative here, cf. Yakubovich 2013b:160.

[AH.B.]

The present lexeme is a deadjectival formation in /-zza(/i)-/, see Rieken 2005b:68, followed by Yakubovich 2013b:160, who puts forward the hypothesis that the suffix marks the superlative. Due to its probable adjectival status, it is expected to be i-mutated, similarly to Lyc. -ze/i- (Sasseville pers. comm.).

[AH.B.]

*This lemma was co-written with the trainee Marian Wehrstein.

For the lemma head, see HLuw. /ura/i-/.