akkurriya-

The verb is attested only once in a Middle Hittite Instruction for the Royal Bodyguard.

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3sg. pres. act.

ak-kur-ri-ia-i

IBoT 1.36 iii 59

(CTH 262, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The verb describes a kind of unwanted motion by the chariot while the king is mounting it. The royal bodyguard prevents it by grasping the bit of the horse and holding the chariot steady; cf. Güterbock & van den Hout 1991a:28f., where akkuriya-⁽ⁱ⁾ is translated as ‘to tilt’, accordingly (followed in DCL:6 and here).

In contrast, Miller 2013a:117 suggests ‘to lurch’. However, his translation does not suit the context since, in that case, it would be enough to hold the horse by the bit and more securely with two hands standing in front of it. Incomprehensible is Ünal 2007a:12 with ‘to be present, available, existing’No translation is offered in Jakob-Rost 1965a:196 and HW 2nd ed. A:53.

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On account of the 3sg. pres. act. in -iyai, which is unknown in Hittite verbal inflexion, the intransitive verb is assigned to the Luwian stem class in -iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ (DCL:6), which forms, among other types, denominal verbs like kundur-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾, zal(l)an-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ (Sasseville 2021a:402). Luw. kunduriya-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to give the impression’ (vs. transitive Hitt. kundura(i)- ‘to impress’) is especially interesting in the present context, being an intransitive derivative of a nominal stem in -ur- and, thus, providing a parallel for akk-ur-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾. The intransitive denominal verb ‘to tilt’, i.e. ‘to be thrown, to fall’ represents the semantic counterpart of a transitive root verb *akk- ‘to throw’ (perhaps attested in HLuw. INFRA á-ka (cf. HLuw. /anni/ under Forms).

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The verb under discussion is recognized as Luwian by Melchert 2005a:449, van den Hout 2006a:230, and DCL:6.

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