/hursa/i-/, hu+ra/i-si-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3994
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/hursa/i-/, hu+ra/i-si-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Commagene, dating to the late 9th or early 8th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | /hursi/ | hu+ra/i-si | ANCOZ 7, §5 (Commagene) |
At ANCOZ 7, §5, which includes a line break, Hawkins 2000a:356 reads 〈hu+ra/i-x-x〉, but the photograph and handcopy show a reasonably recognisable 〈hu+ra/i-si〉.
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.13.1 Phonological Interpretation
The identification of this lexeme and its reading hinge on the signs being read correctly at ANCOZ 7, §5. If the reading is true, the word may be cognate with CLuw. ḫuršalamna/i-, and possibly CLuw. ḫwaḫḫuršant(i)-.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning ‘fat, fattened(?)’ is assigned tentatively by Yakubovich 2017e:s.v., based on the possible connection with CLuw. ḫuršalamma/i-. The context accommodates the semantic assignment, but cannot be said to force it, because ANCOZ 7, §5 reads: ni-pa-ta kwa/i+ra/i hu+ra/i-si TERRA INFRA-ta FINES-hi-zi kwa/i-sa za-la-na PONERE-wa/i-i, approx. /niba=tta kwari hursi taskwarri zanta irhinzi kwis zallan tuwai/, translating as ‘Or if (he) who, down on the thick (?) earth, shifts the frontiers (that I, Suppiluliuma, made)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:356, Melchert 2016e:289). Further textual evidence may result in a reappraisal of the meaning hence left open here.
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1.1.5Stem
Since the word is an adjective, it is likely subject to i-mutation. From the attestation, the exact shape of the stem is difficult to access however, as it may be /hursa/i-/ or /hursi(ya)-/.
[AH.B.]