/sarlada/, SUPER+ra/i-la+ra+a
‘above’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3834
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/sarlada/, SUPER+ra/i-la+ra+a
‘above’1.1.1Transmission
A hapax legomenon, this lexeme can be found once in an inscription from Karkamiš, with a tentative dating to the middle of the 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /sarlada/ | SUPER+ra/i-la+ra+a | TÜNP 1, §4 (Karkamiš) |
The attestation in TÜNP 1, §4 is followed by a particle chain: 〈-pa-wa/i〉, i.e. /=ba=wa/ ‘but’ and the quotative particle.
[AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Although it occurs just once, the phonological interpretation of this lexeme is reasonably secure, because it belongs to the word family around the adverb /sarli/ ‘highly’ and ultimately the adverb /sarra/ ‘above’. In addition to that, it has cognate links to the other Anatolian languages, e.g. Hittite šarā ‘up, over, above’ and šēr ‘up, over’ and Lyc. hri ‘up, above’ (cf. e.g. HED S:155). Along with many other members of the word family, the word under discussion shares the use of the logogram SUPER (sign *70) in its spelling.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning of the lexeme is clear despite just a single attestation. It is supported both etymologically as well as contextually, for it occurs in a semantically transparent context in TÜNP 1, §4: SUPER+ra/i-la+ra+a-pa-wa/i (“CAELUM”)ti-pa-sá i-tà?-wa/i-za, approx. /sarlada=ba=wa tippas=sa Ilawan=za/ ‘and above, the sky (is) of (the god) El’, which follows after a clause stating ‘below, the earth (is) of (the god) Ea’, see already Meriggi 1975a:103, followed by Hawkins 2000a:155f.
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1.1.5Stem
Though clearly based on the Luwian adjective /sarla/i-/ ‘high’, the morphological structure of the present form is not entirely clear. The HLuw. corpus holds evidence for a slightly different adverb formation, whose meaning appears to be the same, viz. /sarladi/.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /sarri/.