/un-/, (BIBERE)u-na-sa
‘drinking’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 397
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/una-/, (BIBERE)u-na-sa
‘drinking’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon found in a letter dated to the late 8th century BCE.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| gen. sg. or gen. adj. nom./acc. pl. n. | /unas(sa)/ | (BIBERE)u-na-sa | ASSUR letter f+g, §36 (Assur) |
For the grammatical ambiguity, see Starke 1990a:553.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
Since the word is complete as it is, we change the transliteration in Hawkins 2000a:537 from BIBERE-u-na-sa to (BIBERE)u-na-sa. Contra Starke 1990a:553, the stem of the verb is /u-/ and not /uwa-/; the vowel /a/ in /uwammis/ belongs to the participle suffix, not to the stem. Thus, /uwuna/ must have contracted to /una/.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme (BIBERE)u-na-sa is translated as a genitive dependent on (“CORNU”)zú+ra/i-ni ‘horns of drinking’ (Bossert 1950a:30, Hawkins 2000a:537, Giusfredi 2010b:230, Payne 2012a:118).
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
Bossert 1950a:30 recognizes rightly a genitive singular of an “infinitive” in /-una/. To be more precise, we are likely to be dealing here with a verbal substantive in -ur/-un- in which the infinitive ending /-una/ originated. However, it is possible that the heteroclite stem was further derived and that the lexeme now belongs to the paradigm of a-stems or to the one of mutated stems; cf. Starke 1990a:552 n. 2044a. Alternatively, we might be dealing with a case of hypostasis. Since the lexeme is attested only in the genitive singular, we cannot tell anything yet about its exact inflection; cf. HLuw. /adun(i)-/. Therefore, the morphological process must also be left open.
[D.S.]
For the base of the derivative see HLuw. /u-/.