*462-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3866
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*462-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is possibly attested twice in inscriptions from Tabal dating to the 9th to the 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | /…/ | *462 | ÇALAPVERDİ 1, §5 (Tabal) |
| abl./instr. | *462-i-ti | ÇİFTLİK, §12 (Tabal) |
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Unclear. After much controversy among scholars, see e.g. Hawkins 2000a:36f., but the reading 〈max, mara/i〉 for the sign *462 was eventually accepted (see e.g. Yakubovich 2002a:191). It may have a logographic meaning besides, but that remains in the dark still. For the present lexeme, it cannot be said whether *462 should be understood syllabically or logographically.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme occurs twice in broken contexts and is hence difficult to interpret; so far its meaning has remained opaque. Hawkins 2000a:450 hypothesises that it may be connected to the similarly spelt adjective /muwassa/i-/ ‘potent’, but he is very doubtful of this. The slightly better preserved context is found in ÇİFTLİK, §12: wa/i-sa *462-i-ti “˹ANNUS˺”-za (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-ta-sá (...?), approx. /wa=as …-idi ussanz Tarhuntas …/, only partly translatable as ‘For(?) years, he … with *462 … of the Storm-god Tarhunt’ (Hawkins 2000a:449), in which the verb must be intransitive due to the presence of the enclitic subject pronoun.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
Unclear. The attested abl./instr. ending in /-idi/ may hint at the presence of i-mutation in the paradigm and hence a common gender for the noun, but even this claim requires corroboration through further data.
[AH.B.]