/tabariya-(ti)/, (“LIGNUM”)LEPUS+ra/i-ia-
‘to decree, command’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3820
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tabariya-(ti)/, (“LIGNUM”)LEPUS+ra/i-ia-
‘to decree, command’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Tell Ahmar, dating to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | /tabariyatta/ | (“LIGNUM”)LEPUS+ra/i-ia-ta | TELL AHMAR 1, §19 (Tell Ahmar) |
See HLuw. /tabar-(ti)/ (or /tabari-(ti)/) ‘to rule’ for the similar looking form at TELL AHMAR 1, §9, following Hawkins 2000a:242.
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Because the word is part of a larger family, its phonological interpretation can be regarded as assured. Besides the inner-HLuw. cognates, the word is further linked to e.g. CLuw. tapar-(ti) ‘to rule’ and its family and Hittite tapariya(i)-(mi) ‘to rule’.
Like several other members of the word family, the present verb uses the logographic determinative LIGNUM (sign *382) in addition to the logogram LEPUS (*115) at TELL AHMAR 1, §19. While LEPUS serves to tie the word securely to the other members of its word family, the sign LIGNUM represents an additional connection to the words around the concept of authority, cf. HLuw. /salhant-/ ‘greatness’ and Hawkins 2000a:242.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Although the basic semantic content of the verb is clear because of its word family, its precise meaning is still somewhat vague due to only a single extant attestation, and further finds may result in a semantic fine-tuning. TELL AHMAR 1, §19 runs: *a-wa/i-mu *a-pa-si-i (INFANS)ni-mu-wa/i-i-za-sa *a-MALUS-wa/i-z[a] CUM-ni (“LIGNUM”)LEPUS+ra/i-ia-ta, approx. /a=wa=mu abassi nimuwizzas adduwan=za anni tabariyatta/, meaning ‘His son decreed evil against me’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:240, 242).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The verb belongs to the stem class in /-a-(ti)/ and derives from the noun /tabariya-/ ‘command’ (Sasseville 2021a:18, 31).
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /tabar-(ti)/.
tapariyā