iparwi(ya)-
‘western’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3628
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
iparwi(ya)-
1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is attested only once in a NS oracle report.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. (?) | i-pár-wi5-iš-š(=) |
KUB 49.39 iii 5 | (CTH 580, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The wedge before i-pár-wi5-iš-ša(-)[ at KUB 49.39 iii 5 is most likely to be interpreted as a gloss wedge (contra Sakuma 2009b:347, who reads “1” in spite of the slanting direction of the wedge). Zorman 2007a:764 n. 134f. explains it as a marker of a taboo word, which is unnecessary in view of the Luwian origin of the word (see under Origin).
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
Scholars mentioning iparwišš=a(-)[ regard it as a variant of iparwašša/i- (Sakuma 2009b:347, HW 2nd ed. I:68f., DCL:s.v.) However, instead of a phonological by-form, it is easier to assume a different derivative of *iparwa-, i.e. an -i(ya)- adjective iparwi(ya)- with the same meaning ‘related to the west, western’, which amounts to a nom. sg. with the particle =(y)a ‘and’. However, it is necessary to keep in mind that the context is very fragmentary.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
For the putative stem formation, see under Meaning.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Origin
Gloss wedge marking, root, and suffixes point to a Luwian origin (assumed in CLL:90, HHw:62, HW 2nd ed. I:68f.).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. *ip(a)-.