/zidiyadiya-/, VIR-ti-ia-ti-ia-
‘masculinity’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 426
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/zidiyadiya-/, VIR-ti-ia-ti-ia
‘masculinity’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in one inscription dated to the reign of Katuwa (late 10th or early 9th c. BCE).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | /zidiyadiyan=za/ | VIR-ti-ia-ti-ia-za | KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §26 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Meaning ‘masculinity, male genitals’
The logogram VIR indicates that the lexeme VIR-ti-ia-ti-ia- n. refers to something pertaining to the man. Furthermore, it is clearly a derivative of VIR-ti-ia-ti- /zidiyad(i)-/ ‘male’. VIR-ti-ia-ti-ia- n. occurs within a curse formula, where it is the direct object of the verb /partuni-(ti)/ ‘to severe (vel sim.)’ and where the dative pronoun /=du/ makes it clear that the object is something that belongs to the potential male offender. The meaning ‘masculinity’ is suggested in Hawkins 1975a:143 and followed by Hawkins 2000a:104, Payne 2012a:72. Yakubovich (pers. comm.) suggests the translation ‘male genitals’, which expresses clearly what is to be removed.
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1.1.4Stem
The lexeme /zidiyadiya-/ n. is a substantivized adjective in /-i(ya)-/ derived from the noun /zidiyad(i)-/ ‘male’: /zidiyad(i)-/ + /-i(ya)-/ + (substantivization in the neuter gender).
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For the derivational base see /zidiyad(i)-/.