/tarbiwa/, (“CORNU”)tara/i-pi-wa/i
‘in opposition’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3931
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/tarbiwa/, (“CORNU”)tara/i-pi-wa/i
‘in opposition’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested six times in inscriptions from Karkamiš and Tabal, dating to the 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /tarbiwa/ | (“CORNU”)tara/i-pi-wa/i | YUNUS, §4 (Karkamiš) |
| (“CORNU”)tara/i-pi-wa/i | TİLSEVET, §6 (Karkamiš) | ||
| tara/i-pi-wa/i | SULTANHAN, §21 (Tabal) | ||
| CORNU+ra/i-pi-wa/i | KARKAMIŠ A18h, §4 (Karkamiš) | ||
| tara/i-pi-[wa/i] | KARKAMIŠ A5a, §12 (Karkamiš) | ||
| tara/i-pi-wa/i | KARKAMIŠ A5a, §13 (Karkamiš) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is reasonably certain, because it is very likely connected to the family around /tarb(a)i-/ ‘to trample, attack’; cf. e.g. Yakubovich 2002a:207f. In fact, it is probably most closely connected to the similar adverbs /tarba/ and /tarbi/ ‘in opposition’This was already clear to Meriggi in HHG:123, albeit with a meaning ‘again(st)’ (“wi(e)der?”).; see the discussion of the stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘in opposition, aggressively’
Like its cognates /tarpa/ and /tarpi/, the adverb /tarpiwa/ appears to denote something damaging that the authors want to protect their stelae against. It occurs without fail in the protases of curse formula and always together with the verb /ta-(i)/ ‘to stand’. Cf. e.g. TİLSEVET, §6: za-ti-pa-wa/i (STELE)wa/i-ni-ri+i kwa/i-sà (“CORNU”)tara/i-pi-wa/i CRUS-i, approx. /zatti=ba=wa wanidi kwis tarbiwa tai/, meaning ‘(He) who stands in opposition to this stele, (the gods shall oppose him!)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:179).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
Indeclinable, the present adverb probably derives from the adverb /tarbi/ with the same meaning. Yakubovich 2002a:207f. proposes an analysis as /tarbi/ enlarged with the suffix /-wa/ with an allative meaning.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. /tarbi/.