/tarkummam(i)-/, tara/i-ku-ma-mi-
‘interpreter’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3773
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tarkummam(i)-/, tara/i-ku-ma-mi-
‘interpreter’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in an inscription from Karkamiš, dating to the 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | /tarkummaminzi/ | tara/i-ku-ma-mi-zi | YUNUS, §1 (Karkamiš) YUNUS, §3 (Karkamiš) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is secure because of two cognates in CLuw., viz. the verb tarkumm(a)i-(di) ‘to report orally’ and the noun tarkummiya- ‘report’; cf. Peker 2014a:191.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning was first suggested by Peker 2014a:191, based on the link with CLuw. tarkumm(a)i-(di) ‘to report orally’. In the contexts of attestation on a funerary stele, the word clearly denotes a profession, and the two relevant clauses at YUNUS, §1 and §3 run: za-wa/i STELE-ni-zi Ita-sá Isa+ra/i-pu-wa/i-ní-sa-ha tara/i-ku-ma-mi-zi CAPUT-ti-zí … pa+ra/i-i-ha-wa/i-〈〈zá〉〉 FILIUS-mu-wa/i〈-zá〉-zi tara/i-ku-ma-mi-zi ARHA (“*69”)su-ni-ta, approx. /za=wa wanid=za Tas(sa) Sarpuwanis(sa)=ha tarkummaminzi …-ttinzi … pari=ha=wa nimuwizzanzi tarkummaminzi ahha sun(n)inta/, translating as ‘This stele (is) of Ta and Sarpuwani, translators, noblemen. (They set up this stele as a good one.) And sons (and) interpreters libated before (it). (He who stands aggressively to it, against him the gods will litigate)’ (cf. Peker 2014a:190).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The denominal suffix used is likely /-am(i)-/ rather than the participial suffix /-mma/i-/ with subsequent substantivization; cf. Melchert 2003b:195, Sasseville 2021a:230. The assumed derivational base */tarkumm-/ is, however, unattested.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. */tarkw-/.