šarla-
‘to elevate, exalt (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3837
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
šarla-
‘to elevate, exalt (?)’1.1.1Transmission
Two possible attestations of the word are found in NS manuscripts of rituals from the Kuwattalla tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1pl. impv. act. (?) | [šar?-l]a?!-a-u-un-du | KUB 35.14 i 22” | (CTH 760, NS) |
| part. nom. sg. c. (?) | [š]ar-⸢la-mi-iš⸣[ | KUB 32.5 iv 31’ | (CTH 759, NS) |
| šar-la-a[m-mi-iš] | KBo 8.129 iv 17’ | (CTH 759, NS) |
For the new morphological interpretation of [šar?-l]a?!-a-u-un-du, see Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:18f. and Yakubovich & Mouton 2023a:116f.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The reading [šar?-l]a?!-a-u-un-du at KUB 35.14 i 22’ conforms with what is known of the context, but cannot be regarded as certain, especially in view of the peculiar LA sign written over erasure.
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1.1.4Meaning
The context as attested does not permit a semantic interpretation by itself. However, if the restoration of the head noun Dutu at KUB 32.5 iv 31’ and KBo 8.129 iv 17’ is correct (Yakubovich & Mouton 2023a:110f.,116f. and Mouton 2023a:131), the suggested participial meaning ‘exalted’ is more than likely. The restoration of the finite verb form of a denominative verb derived from šarla/i- ‘high, upper(most)’ has the status of an educated guess, but again, if correct, the meaning would be ‘to elevate, exalt’.
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1.1.5Stem
In view of the uncertainties described, it is hardly possible that the two words belong to the same stem class. The participle would belong to the -a-(ti) factitives or a stem in -a-(i), whereas the finite verb could only be assigned to the -a(i)-(di) denominatives (see Yakubovich & Mouton 2023a:112; less likely, albeit possible, the -(a)i-(di) verbs, for which no forms with endings with initial -u- are known).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. šarri .