/unzi(ya)-/, u-zi-
‘your (pl.)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- pron
- ID
- 3873
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/unzi(ya)-/, u-zi-
‘your (pl.)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Assur dating to the late 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | /unzin/ | u-zi-na | ASSUR letter e, §7 (Assur) |
[A.P.] [AH.B.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word can be deemed secure despite the word being a hapax legomenon so far. It is based on the attested spelling in combination with the evidence for the 2pl. pronoun /unza-/ ‘you (pl.)’ and the transparent morphological structure of the word, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word is attested only once in a passage that is difficult to understand, yet its identification as the possessive of the 2pl. pronoun seems secure. Already Meriggi (HHG:137) assumed the word to represent a form of the 2pl. pronoun, even though some signs were wrongly identified at that point. ASSUR letter e, §7 reads: a-wa/i á-pi u-zi-na kwa/i-i ha-tu+ra/i-na AUDIRE+MI-ta-ra+a-nu, approx. /a=wa appi unzin kwi hattulan tummantadanu/, meaning ‘(As for you (pl.), you will be in health,) because (?) you (pl.) shall observe (?) your health (?)’ (Waal 2021a:276; cf. Hawkins 2000a:535 and Morpurgo Davies 1980b:91-93).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The word represents an adjective in /-i(ya)-/, deriving from the stem of the 2pl. pronoun /unza-/. Besides /unzi(ya)-/, the HLuw. corpus holds another derived possessive, viz. /unzassa/i-/, for which see the lemma head.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /unza-/.