/sasarla-(i)/, (“LIBARE”)sa-sa5+ra/i-la-
‘to offer (in sacrifice); to honour’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3840
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/sasarla-(i)/, (“LIBARE”)sa-sa5+ra/i-la-
‘to offer (in sacrifice); to honour’1.1.1Transmission
The eight attestations of this lexeme originate from a number of regions within the HLuw. area, with Commagene in the east, Tabal, Maraş and Malatya in the centre, and Karkamiš in the south. The inscriptions date to the 12th century BCE in the west, while all other locations date to the 9th and 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pres. act. | /sasarlawi/ | sa-sa5+ra/i-la-wa/i | KULULU 1, §6 (Tabal) |
| 3sg. pres. act. | /sasarlai/ | sa5-sa5+ra/i-la-i | BULGARMADEN 1, §11 (Tabal) |
| 3pl. pres. act. | /sasarlanti/ | (“LIBARE”)sa-sa5+ra/i-la-ti-i-´ | GEMEREK, D2§1 (Tabal) |
| (LIBARE)sá-sa5+ra/i-la-ti | MARAŞ 5, §1 (Maraş) | ||
| LIBARE-sa5+ra/i-la-ti | CEKKE inscr. 1, §5 (Karkamiš) | ||
| 3sg. impv. act. | /sasarlattu/ | sa-sa5+ra/i-la-tu | MALPINAR, §26 (Commagene) |
| 3sg. pret. act. | /sasarlatta/ | sa-SUPER | KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §5 (Malatya) KARAHÖYÜK (ELBİSTAN), §6 (Malatya) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Several fully syllabically spelt attestations provide a good basis for the phonological interpretation of this lexeme. In addition to that, it belongs to the word family around /sarli/ ‘highly’ and thus has further cognates, albeit no exact match, in the other Anatolian languages, e.g. Hitt./Luw. šarlā(i)-(mi) ‘to offer’.
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1.1.4Meaning
While the basic meaning of the verb under discussion is clear, it does not become apparent what, if any, further semantic content is added by the reduplication. Oshiro 1995b:294 proposes an iterative meaning, but Dempsey 2015a:276 and Sasseville 2021a:358 refrain from assigning any such generic information. In fact, /sasarla-(i)/ exhibits the same syntactic pattern as /sarl(a)i-(di)/ by using the accusative for the object denoting the sacrifice and the dative for the recipient in the meaning of ‘to offer (in sacrifice)’. In a possible divergence from /sarl(a)i-(di)/, the present verb can also be employed in a different way, encoding the beneficiary as an accusative and the sacrifice as an instrumental (thus in KULULU 1, §6) with a meaning ‘to honour X with Y’, cf. Sasseville 2021a:358. However, it is possible that HLuw. /sarl(a)i-(di)/ makes use of the same pattern as well, but it has so far remained unattested in the corpus.
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1.1.5Stem
The verb is the reduplicated form of the simplex /sarl(a)i-(di)/ ‘to offer’, cf. Dempsey 2015a:276. It is important to note what already Oettinger 1979a:569 comments upon, viz. the fact that the present verb inflects according to the ḫi-conjugation, even though its derivational base uses lenited mi-endings. Sasseville 2021a:358 points out that such behaviour is unexpected for a reduplication (contra Starke 1980a:146f.) and may perhaps point towards an intervening derivational step, in which the stem in /-(a)i-(di)/ is simplified into one in /-a-(i)/.
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For the lemma head, see HLuw. /sarri/.