VIR-tà-x-tá
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 427
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
VIR-tà-x-tá
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is only found once within a fragmentary inscription TELL TAYINAT 1 dated tentatively to the mid-9th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| unknown | /.../ | VIR-tà-x-tá | TELL TAYINAT 1, frag. 1 l.1 (Amuq) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The missing sign in the middle of VIR-tà-x-ta cannot be recovered. Hawkins 2000a:367 suggests that the word VIR-tà is complete reading /zida/ and that the missing sign and the following <tá> reflect particles of the clitic chain. This is possible, but considering the fragmentary state, it must be considered tentative.
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1.1.4Meaning
The logogram VIR indicates that the lexeme VIR-tà-x-tá refers to something pertaining to the man, thus perhaps male (Hawkins 2000a:366f.). Such an approximate meaning is supported by the following word FEMINA-la-. However, based on the fragmentary state of the context, no precise meaning can be ascertained. For the family of words pertaining to /zid(i)-/ ´man´ see under HLuw. /zid(i)-/.
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