*480-ia-
‘(to cause pain or worry?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3705
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*480-ia-
‘(to cause pain or worry ?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Assur dating to the late 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | /…/ | *480-ia | ASSUR letter f+g, §29 (Assur) |
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Unclear. The sign *480 is unique to the present word and has yet to receive a phonological and/or a logographic interpretation. Payne 2012a:118 n. 163 describes the shape of the sign as resembling a dagger.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of the verb is assigned tentatively by Payne 2012a:118 n. 163, who proposes ‘to harm, injure’ vel sim. ASSUR letter f+g, §29 reads: wa/i-za-ta “COR”-ta-ni POST-na-´ *480-ia, approx. /wa=anza=ada attani appan ...-ya/, partly translating as ‘It (pains?) us in the soul’ (cf. Sasseville 2021a:193 and Melchert & Yakubovich 2022b:21 n 2.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The likely 3sg. pres. act. ending in /-ya/ points to a verb belonging to the ḫi-conjugation, see Sasseville 2021a:388, though the precise stem class from that group cannot be identified.
[AH.B.]