/izzi(ya)di(ya)-/, i-zi-i-ia-ti-
‘offering’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3737
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/izzi(ya)di(ya)-/, i-zi-i-ia-ti-
‘offering’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in an inscription from Commagene, dating c. 770-750 BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg | /izziyadin=za/ | i-zi-i-ia-t[i?-z]a | MALPINAR, §10 (Commagene) |
| /izzidin=za/ | i-z[i]-i-ti-i-za | MALPINAR, §14 (Commagene) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is tentative because of the spelling variation it shows. The stem appears to alternate between /izziyadi-/ and /izzidi-/, and the expected stem in /-iya-/ appears to have been lost to syncope in both attestations in MALPINAR. Still, such contraction is not unexpected for an 8th century BCE text, cf. e.g. Melchert 2003a:183.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is assigned mainly on the basis of the cognate links of the word and its morphological structure (cf. Yakubovich 2017e and Yakubovich 2020a). Hawkins 2000a:342f. draws on the connection with /izzi(ya)-(di) ‘to do, make’ to suggest a meaning such as ‘performance’ vel sim., whereas Rieken 2007b:265 deems the contexts too fragmented for an interpretation. Both contexts of attestation in MALPINAR are broken, with §10 slightly better preserved: a-wa/i za-a i-zi-i-ia-t[i?-z]a? kwa/i-i-sa la+ra/i-x-ia, approx. /a=wa za izziyadin=za kwis laraya/, meaning ‘(He) who blesses this offering (to that one …)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:342).
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1.1.5Stem
The noun is clearly a neuter gender, as proven by the presence of the neuter particle /=za/. Ultimately deriving from the verb /izzi(ya)-(di)/ ‘to do, make’, its word formation is unclear; cf. Yakubovich 2015b:6.2.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /izzi(ya)-(di)/.