/pazza-(i)/, pa-za-
‘to begin to drink (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3667
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/pazza-(i)/, pa-za-
‘to begin to drink (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Aleppo, dated to the late 10th or early 9th century.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | /pazzai/ | pa-za-i | BABYLON 1, §10 (Aleppo) |
1.1.3Meaning
For the meaning ‘to (begin to) drink (?)’, see the translation of Payne 2012a:90 as well as the HLuw. /azza-(i)/ with a reference to Yakubovich 2016a:88-90 (followed by Sasseville 2021a:446); contra Barnes 2022-2023a:30-34, who rather compares Hitt. padda-/padd-(ḫi) ´to dig´.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
This formation reflects the suffix /-azza-(i)/ (Sasseville 2021a:446).
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. /pass-(ti)/.