taršuliya
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 3285
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
taršuliya
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word occurs once in a NS copy of the Ištanuwa festival.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | tar-šu-li-ia | KUB 25.37 ii 32’ | (CTH 771, NS) |
The tentative morphological analysis follows CLL:106.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
Due to the fragmentary context, no translation has so far been offered (DLL:94, CLL:217). Under the lemma of kulkulliya, it is considered cautiously that kulkulliya and taršuliya may be antonyms referring to a wet and a dry object. The suggestion is based on putative connections with Hitt. ku(wa)liu- ‘flowing smoothly, calm’ and tarš-ant- ‘dried’, but obviously, it is a purely etymological interpretation and therefore quite speculative.
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1.1.5Stem
Except for tarš- being classified as the root and word-final -iya as the relational suffix -i(ya)-, every other statement about the derivational history would cross the line into speculation.
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