/abin/, *a-pi-[na]
‘on this side’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3653
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/abin/, *a-pi-[na]
‘on that side’1.1.1Transmission
Possibly attested twice, the occurrences of this word can be found in inscriptions from Konya and Malatya, dating to the 13th and 11th or 10th centuries BCE respectively.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /abin/ | [*a-]pi-i(a)- | YALBURT frag. 4, §1 (Konya) |
| *a-pi-[na] | IZGIN 2, §4 (Malatya) |
At YALBURT frag. 4, §1, the word hosts the clitic 〈-ha〉, /=ha/ ‘and’, which causes the omission of the preceding /-n/.
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is certain, as it represents the abl./instr. of the demonstrative /aba-/ ‘that’, see the discussion there.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of this word was elucidated by Goedegebuure 2007a:327-330, who tied the word to the paradigm of /aba-/ ‘that; he, she, it’ when investigating the abl./instr. In contrast to the other contexts with /abin/, the occurrences listed above do not involve the form in its usual pre-nominal demonstrative function. Instead, it takes on an adverbial function. It occurs together with its corresponding proximal deictic /zin/ ‘on this side at IZGIN 2, §§4-5: *a-wa/i-tá *a-pi-[na] […] *286-wa/i-ni-zi(URBS) FINES+HA-zi POST-ni a-tá i-zi-i-tà zi-pa-wa/i-ta hi?-li-ki-zi(URBS) FINES+HA-zi POST-ni a-tá i-zi-i-tà, approx. /a=wa=tta abin …-wanninzi irhinzi appanni anta izzida zin=ba=wa=tta Hilikkinzi irhinzi appanni anta izzida/, translating as ‘On that side he added the borders of the town …, on this side he added the borders of the town Hilikki’ (see Goedegebuure 2007a:330, cf. Hawkins 2000a:316).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The word represents the lexicalised abl./instr. of the demonstrative /aba-/ ‘that; he, she, it’, see Goedegebuure 2007a:327-330.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /aba-/.