/hasi-/, (COR )ha-si-

This lexeme is attested in late inscriptions of the 8th c. BCE.

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1sg. pres. ind. act.	/hasiha(?)/	(COR)ha-si-ha	KARKAMIŠ A5a, §8 (Karkamiš)
		ha-si-ha	TİLSEVET, §2 (Karkamiš), KARKAMIŠ A18h, §2 (Karkamiš), KARKAMIŠ A5b, §2 (Karkamiš)
		[ha-si]-ha	KARKAMIŠ A4c, §2 (Karkamiš)
		ha-[…]	KARKAMIŠ A5a, §7 (Karkamiš)
3sg. pret. ind. act.	/hasida(?)/	ha-si-[…]	EĞREK, §2 (Tabal)

The verb is transitive and often takes the Luwian noun /ar(i)-/ ‘time’ in the plural as an accusative object. Hawkins 2000a:185 offers the translation ‘to recall’ for HLuw. /hasi-/, which is rejected by Melchert 2004a:376 and Yakubovich 2016a:78 because of the oddity this meaning would bring to the context of a burial inscription. Melchert (ibid.) suggests that /hasi-/ is related to the substantive /hasa-/ c. ‘satiety, abundance’ and assigns instead the meaning ‘to enjoy to the full’ to the Luwian verb (followed by Payne 2012a:45-47). Yakubovich (ibid.) interprets the verb morphologically speaking as a causative in -(a)i-^(di) with the meaning ‘to saturate, to complete’. He argues convincingly that the formula /arinzi hasiha/ means that the deceased lived a long life and died of natural causes, i.e. that he has “completed” his existence.

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The assignment of the verbal stem class of /hasi-/ is not secured by its attestations. Melchert 2012c:178 n. 4 assumes a verb in -i(ya)-^(ti) based on the Cuneiform Luwian lexeme ḫāšiya- ‘to satiate’, which is however intransitive. Yakubovich 2016a:78 on the other hand takes it as a verbal stem in -(a)i-^(di) in agreement with its semantics. For the same reason mentioned above, his hypothesis is retained here tentatively until new synchronic evidence emerges.

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For the Lemma Head see */has-/.