*286-na-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3708
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*286-na-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Tell Ahmar dating possibly to the 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 2sg. impv. act. | /…/ | *286-na | ARSLANTAŞ, §6 (Tell Ahmar) |
The form attested at ARSLANTAŞ, §6 is surely a 2sg. impv. act., not a noun (pace Hawkins 2000a:248).
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Mainly unclear. The sign *286 distantly resembles a cross with one tip bent downwards and has been fixed with the syllabic value 〈wa/i7〉; no semantic interpretation of the shape has so far been advanced. It is likely used in logographic fashion here, cf. Hawkins 2000a:248. The sign is used in a handful of other words, whose interpretation mostly face similar difficulties.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of the verb is unknown. It occurs in an inscription that is partly destroyed, and ARSLANTAŞ, §6 constitutes the final clause after a lacuna with almost no recoverable text: *a-wa/i a-wá/í “4”-wa/i-zi (“BOS”)wa/i-wa/i-ti-i-ha “x”(-)sa-mi-zi *286-na, approx. /a=wa awi mawinzi wawadi=ha …-saminzi …-na/, perhaps translating as ‘Come on, *286-na- the four and with/from (a) bull(s) the …-sami-!’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:246-248). The clause features the 2sg. impv. act. of the verb /awi-(di)/ ‘to come’, which is occasionally found to combine with another verb at the end of the clause showing the same inflection in a sense of urging the addressee to act.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
With only little visible of the phonological form of the verb, the stem class is difficult to determine. Several possibilities present themselves, viz. a stem in /-a-(ti)/, in /-a-(di)/, in -a-(i), in /-anna-(i)/ or in /-ina-(i)/; cf. Sasseville 2021a:19-21, 80-82, 340-342, 513f., 529f.
[AH.B.]