tarkummiya-

A single attestation of the lexeme is found in a letter fragment.

[E.R.]

nom. sg.

tar-kum-mi-ia-aš

KUB 60.150 obv. 12’

(CTH 209, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

With the fragmentary context providing hardly any information, the semantic interpretation relies on the obvious relationship with CLuw. tarkumm(a)i-^(di) ‘to report’ and Hitt. tarkummiye/a- ‘to report, translate’. Melchert (DCL:s.v.) regards the noun tarkummiya- c. as a possible derivational base of tarkummiyā(i)-^(mi). At the same time, tarkummiya- itself could be a derivative of CLuw. tarkumm(a)i-^(di) ‘to report’.

[E.R.]

The nom. sg. tarkummiyaš indicates a non-mutating noun, as would be typical for common gender verbal abstracts in -iya-, derived from deradical and denominative verbs (in -i-^(ti) = Hitt. -iye/a-^(mi); and perhaps also to stems in -(a)i-^(di)?); see Sasseville 2020c.

[E.R.]

Since not only the verbal base tarkumm(a)i-^(di) ‘to report’ is Luwian, but also the abstract suffix -iya- c., the stem can presumably be regarded as a borrowing from this language (following DCL:s.v., where the word is listed).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. *tar(k)u-.