*293-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3425
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*293-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Malatya dating to the 12th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | /…/ | *293-za/i | KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §21 (Malatya) |
| dat./loc. pl. | *293 | KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §23 (Malatya) |
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological form of this word is unknown. The sign *293 is unique to the present lexeme and has yet to receive an interpretation as a logogram, syllabogram or both; its shape is elaborate, yet unclear.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Unknown. The contexts of attestation suggest that the word denotes something unfavourable, since it occurs in the curse formula of the inscription, combined with another opaque word and denoting an action or object the installation shall be protected from. Thus, KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §23 reads: kwa/i+ra/i-pa-tà *293 *469 PONERE, approx. /kwari=ba=ada … tuwai/, partly translating as ‘(Whosoever shall trample on my house or city), or shall out them to/for (?) *293 (and) *469’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:290).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The /-nzi/ ending marks the noun as a common gender, provided the analysis of KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §21 as a nom. pl. is correct.Hawkins 2000a:295 regards the other possibility, viz. nom./acc. sg. of a neuter noun, as less likely. Beyond that, no morphological assessment is possible.
[AH.B.]