ipatarma
‘west(ward)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3629
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian (Glossenkeilwörter)
ipatarma
1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is found only in two fragmentary oracle reports.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| adv. (indecl.) | i-pa-tar-ma |
KUB 16.57 ii? 4’ | (CTH 573, NS) |
| ?]⸢i⸣-pa-tar-ma |
KUB 22.17 i 3’ | (CTH 580, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The derivative ipattarmayan attests to the expected spelling with geminate -tt-.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
Besides the fact that the lexeme occurs in bird oracle reports, it is only the relation with its derivative ipattarmayan ‘west’ that leads to the semantic interpretation as ‘west(ward)’ now widely accepted (for references, see ipattarmayan under Derivatives).
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The adverb ipatarma is based on an unattested *ip(a)- and contains as its primary suffix polarizing -ttar- (< *-tro-). Regarding the final formant, case forms built on -m(ma)n-, -ma/i-, and non-mutating -ma- are possible, the last being the most plausible since stem final -ai(ya)- (as seen in ipattarmayan) normally arises by suffixation of -i(ya)- to non-mutating a-stemsMelchert 2014d:209 compares pašattarma- ‘swallowing’ (cf. under lemma).. For further analyses now outdated, see under ipattarmayan.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Derivatives
1.1.7Origin
Like its derivative ipat(t)armayan, the base ipatarma also originates in Luwian; cf. ipat(t)armayan for references.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. *ip(a)-.