/tabariyalla-(ti)/, LEPUS+ra/i-ia-la-
‘to make into a commander, act as commander’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3822
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tabariyalla-(ti)/, LEPUS+ra/i-ia-la-
‘to make into a commander, act as commander’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested twice in inscriptions from Tabal, dating to the late 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | /tabariyallatta/ | LEPUS+ra/i-ia-la-ta | KARABURUN, §3 (Tabal) |
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | /tabariyallanta/ | LEPUS2+ra/i-ia-la-ta | KULULU 4, §7 (Tabal) |
The analysis of the form attested at KULULU 4, §7 as 3pl. instead of 3sg. is based on the context, see the discussion of the meaning below.
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this verb is quite clear despite a lack of fully syllabic spellings. The word belongs to the family around /tabar-(ti)/ (or /tabari-(ti)/) ‘to rule’, and its morphology is fully transparent, cf. the discussion of the stem below. As with most members of the word family, this word, too, relies on the logogram LEPUS (sign *115) in its two variations, viz. the depiction of the head and neck of a hare (LEPUS) and that of the full animal (LEPUS2) without any discernible difference in meaning.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Although the verb is attested only twice, its basic meaning is relatively clear because of its transparent morphology. The factitive meaning is particularly apparent in KULULU 4, §7: wa/i-mu LEPUS+ra/i-ia-la-ta, approx. /wa=mu tabariyallanta/, meaning ‘(I was dear to my lords), and they made me commander’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:445, 447). In KARABURUN, §3, Hawkins 2000a:481f. observes a lack of a direct object, but as per Sasseville 2021a:41f. it is not necessary to assume two different verbs here, rather the same suffix is polysemous in different syntactic constructions, with a meaning ‘to act as commander’ in an intransitive context.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
This verb represents a factitive in /-a-(ti)/ derived from the noun /tabariyalla/i-/ ‘commander’, see Sasseville 2021a:18, 41f.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /tabar-(ti)/.