muwīzza-(i)
‘(to perform a kind of dancing movement)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3534
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
muwīzza-(i)
‘(to perform a kind of dancing movement)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is found only once in an instruction for dance movements on a Sammeltafel.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. pret. act. | mu-u-i-iz-za-an-da | KUB 4.1 iv a 33 | (CTH 422, NS) |
Contra CHD L-N:319 (followed in HHw:107, HEG L-N:226, HED M:198, Ünal 2007a:456), the form does not represent a Hittite 3pl. pres. medio-passive, but a Luwian 3pl. pret. act., as shown by the preceding 3pl. pret. act. tar-ku-e-er at iv a 32 (Starke 1989a:669 and Starke 1990a:452 n. 1633, followed in CLL:152).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The verb is used intransitively to refer to a dancing movement, but the precise meaning remains unclear: (32)LÚ.MEŠḫub.bí tar-ku-e-er na-at-za (33)(eras.)⟨⟨-x-za⟩⟩ mu-u-i-iz-za-an-da “The dancers danced and they m.-ed themselves” (KUB 4.1 iv a 32f.), cf. CHD L-N:319, CLL:152, HHw:107, HEG L-N:226, Ünal 2007a:456. Only Puhvel (HED M:198) offers a translation based on the meaning of the assumed derivational base muwa- ‘(overpowering) might, feistiness’: “... put on a powerful performance.” Syntactically impossible is the interpretation by Starke 1989a:669 (and Starke 1990a:452 n. 1633), who analyses the sentence as a transitive construction: “und man ermutigte sie.”
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1.1.5Stem
Under the assumption that muwīzzanda represents a Luwian inflectional form, two competing analyses for its stem are in the running: Starke 1989a:669 (and Starke 1990a:452 n. 1633) regards the underlying verb as a denominative stem in “-ai̯i-”, based on the reconstructed adjective *muwizza- (cf. the compound HLuw. /ni-muwizza-/ ‘son’). However, adjectival -zza- is a “closing suffix” in Luwian, i.e. it does not permit further derivation. Therefore, the alternative proposal should be preferred: Melchert (DCL:s.v.) suggests that -zza-(i) marks the imperfective stem built on a denominative verb *muwi-(ti) (a derivative of muwa- ‘(overpowering) might, feistiness’).The comparison with Hitt. išḫizziye/a-(mi) ‘to be kingly’ (HED M:198) proves to be impossible, since the verbal stem suffixes in muwizza- and išḫizziye/a- obviously differ.
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1.1.6Origin
Besides the base muwa-, the preterite ending -anta and the suffix -zza- prove muwīzza-(i) to be a Luwian word (see Starke 1989a:669 and Starke 1990a:452 n. 1633, CLL:152, van den Hout 2006a:249; contra HED M:198).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. mūwa-(i).