/amur(i)-/, á-mu+ra/i-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 398
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/amur(i)-/, á-mu+ra/i-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
Attested once in an inscription from Tabal, this hapax legomenon and its text date to the mid-8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | /amuris/ | á-mu+ra/i-sá | KULULU 1, 5§11 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Despite the lexeme being attested only once, the phonological interpretation can be regarded as reasonably certain, because the spelling leaves little room for interpretation.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The lexeme is used in the apodosis of a curse formula, detailing the ill that is to befall anyone who lays hand on a group of houses built in the name of the author’s lord. /amur(i)-/ is something that belongs to the lord Tuwati and receives the apposition (DEUS)ku-AVIS-pa-pa-sa ha-sa-mi-sa zú-wa/i-ni-i-sá ‘Kubaba’s birth giving dog’, i.e. it may be connected either to something ordinary dogs do or provide, or something that is specific to divine dogs or entities in general. It is possible that an adjective derived from the present lexeme constitutes the first member of the compound /amurallura-/, a title of some kind used once in ASSUR letter f+g §33 (cf. already Hawkins 2000a:444; Yakubovich 2017a:44).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The lexeme is a common gender noun and appears to undergo i-mutation, but in all other respects the stem formation remains in the dark.
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