ARMA+RA/I.FULGUR-
‘victory’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 4009
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
ARMA+RA/I.FULGUR-
‘victory’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested three times in a single inscription from Tabal, dating to the mid-8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | /…/ | ARMA+RA/I.FULGUR-na | TOPADA, §28 (Tabal) |
| TOPADA, §30 (Tabal) | |||
| TOPADA, §32 (Tabal) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The attestations of this noun do not permit any conclusions about its phonological shape. The logograms used to represent it, ARMA (sign *273) and FULGUR (*200) are not known to have syllabic values, and the intervening sign 〈+ra/i〉 (*383) likely serves the purpose of an interpretative aid. ARMA is found with a host of different words from the domain fighting, such as HLuw. /muwa-(i)/ ‘to conquer’ and HLuw. /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon’, whereas FULGUR so far seems to be limited to members from the word family around HLuw. /pihamma/i-/ ‘glorified’. However, it is not clear if any of these words should be understood to constitute part of the present lexeme.
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1.1.4Meaning
Even though the lexeme is limited in its occurrences to just one inscription, its meaning appears to be relatively clear both from its contexts of attestation and its spelling, see Hawkins 2000a:459, with support from Yakubovich 2019a:545 and his new interpretation of the signs *272, *273, *274, and *275 to represent types of weapons and other words from the domain fighting. In the inscription TOPADA, it appears three times in short succession, detailing how victory is denied to the author’s opponent and subsequently granted to the author himself. The first occurrence at §28 reads: (DEUS)TONITRUS-hu-za/i-sa4-pa-wa/i-tú-tax ARMA+RA/I.FULGUR-na ARHA CAPERE-tax, approx. /Tarhunzas=ba=wa=du=tta …-n ahha latta/, translating as ‘But (the Storm-god) Tarhunt took victory from him, (and he did no make any conquest)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:454).
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1.1.5Stem
As is evident from its acc. sg. c. ending, the word under discussion is a common gender noun. Beyond that, however, the stem formation remains quite obscured. While the combination of two logograms may hint at the word representing a compound, any such assumption remains hypothetical until further evidence has surfaced.
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