/tarzi-/, (PES2)tara/i-zi-
‘to have access to (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3776
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tarzi-/, (PES2)tara/i-zi-
‘to have access to (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested five times in inscriptions from Tell Ahmar, Tabal and the Amuq, dating from the late 10th to the second half of the 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. act. | /tarziHa/ | (PES2)tara/i-zi-ha-˹a˺ | BOROWSKI 3, §4 (Tell Ahmar) |
| (PES2)tara/i-zi-ha | TELL AHMAR 1, §6 (Tell Ahmar) | ||
| tara/i-zi-ha | BULGARMADEN, §5 (Tabal) | ||
| (PES2)tara/i-zi-ha | TELL AHMAR 6, §15 (Tell Ahmar) | ||
| (PES2)tara/i-zi-i-ha | ARSUZ 1, §13 (Amuq) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is reasonably clear because of the attested spellings, which are all fully syllabic. The word used to be conflated by scholars with /tarza-/ ‘to turn (oneself)’ (see e.g. Rieken 2004a:457f.), but has since been separated from it again, although an etymological link is commonly held to exist, see Dinçol, Dinçol, Hawkins, Peker & Öztan 2015a:68.
The verb is often preceded by the logogram PES2 (sign *93), which is used as a determinative for a number of verbs from the domain of movement, e.g. /ar-(ti)/ ‘to walk’ and /hwiya-(i)/ ‘to run’.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘to have access to (?)’
The meaning of this verb has proved difficult to determine due to the ill-understood contexts it is attested in. When conflating the forms with /tarza-/, Rieken 2004a:465 suggested “sich wenden”, noting in an addendum (p. 467) and following Melchert (pers. comm.) that /tarzi-/ should be considered the transitive cognate to intransitive /tarza-/. However, none of the contexts feature definitive proof for a direct object, instead they always contain a dat./loc. object, suggesting that the meaning of /tarzi-/ is, though different form /tarza-/, not simply transitive. A provisional translation as ‘to have access to (?)’ is therefore suggested here, see e.g. ARSUZ 1, §13: *a-wa/i-tá hi-ia-wa/i-ha(REGIO) (PES2)tara/i-zi-i-ha, approx. /a=wa=tta Hiyawi=ha tarziHa/, probably translating as ‘(The town Ahhiyawa put me to the stick (= appointed me mayor vel sim.), and I stood over them), I had access also to the land Ahhiyawa’ (cf. Dinçol, Dinçol, Hawkins, Peker & Öztan 2015a:65, 67).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
While it seems clear that the verbs /tarzi-/ and /tarza-/ are related, it is not entirely clear how if /tarza-/ is assumed to be a stem in /-zza-/. The stem class of /tarzi-/ therefore remains likewise unknown.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. */tarkw-/.