/sarlaya/, SUPER-la-ia
‘up(ward)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3831
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/sarlaya/, SUPER-la-ia
‘up(ward)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme occurs once in one of the inscriptions from Karkamiš, dating to the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /sarlaya/ | SUPER-la-ia | KARKAMIŠ A6, §10 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Even though the present lexeme is attested only once in the HLuw. corpus and its form obscured by its partially logographic spelling, the phonological interpretation is reasonably certain. The word belongs to the large family around /sarli/ ‘highly’, many of whose members also use of the logogram SUPER (sign *70) for their spelling.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
With its obvious connection to the word family around /sarli/ ‘highly’, the present word was identified as an adverb by Hawkins 1975a:127 in the context of KARKAMIŠ A6, §10: wa/i-ná SUPER-la-ia ([“]SOLIUM”)i-sà-nu-wa/i-ha, approx. /wa=an sarlaya isnuwahha/, ‘I seated him up / on high’ (cf. also Hawkins 2000a:124).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The present form constitutes an adverb (thus already Hawkins 1975a:127) and derives from the adjective /sarla/i-/ ‘high, (sbst.) chief’.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /sarri/.