*74-wa/i7-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 3372
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*74-wa/i7-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Tabal dating to the mid-8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| unclear | /…/ | *74-wa/i7-sà | TOPADA, §25 (Tabal) |
At TOPADA, §25, the word is followed by a string of clitics: 〈-pa-wa/i〉, i.e. /=ba=wa/ ‘but’ with the quotative particle attached.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Unknown. The choice of 〈sà〉 may indicate that the stem ends in /°wis(a)/ instead of /°wasa/, but the use of 〈sà〉 to represent /ʃ/ is no longer reliable by the 8th century BCE, see Rieken 2010b:659.
The sign *74 is likely used to represent part of the phonological form of the word, but its meaning and possible phonology are so far unclear. The sign is known from only one other instance at SUVASA C, cf. Hawkins 2000a:458.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word is quite unclear, not least due to the many challenges the TOPADA inscription holds for a scholarly investigation concerning content as well as sign usage and forms. Not even the lexical category of the word can be determined with certainty from the context. TOPADA, §25 reads: *74-wa/i7-sà-pa-wa/i kwa/ix-tax *274 FEMINA.MANUS-ha SERVUS-wa/i ARHA? u-pa-˹tax˺, approx. /…-wis(a)=ba=wa kwitta ...-ya wanatta=niwaranninzi=ha ...-wi ahha ubatta/, perhaps translating as ‘Where he *74-wis(a) brought back/away booty and female children into slavery’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:453).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
Yakubovich (pers. comm.) tentatively suggests that the word may be an adverb and therefore indeclinable, but this remains hypothetical for now.
[AH.B.]