*zahhā-
‘fight’
- Language
- Proto-Luwic
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 432
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*/zahha-/
‘fight’1.1.1Compounds
- /Zahhamu-/ (PN) (Neumann 1978a:128, HEG W-Z:602)
- /Zahhanann(i)-/ (PN) (Hawkins 2000a:91, HEG W-Z:602)
1.2 Lycian A
*zxxa-
‘fight’1.2.1Derivatives
1.3 Sidetic
†śaka
1.3.1Transmission
Pérez Orozco 2007a:139 cautiously suggests segmenting śaka from the completely opaque sequence ewśako3pebijasexnebarśaka of the Sidetic inscription S3 and comparing it with Lycian “zχχa “fight””. Although such a Lycian word is not attested yet, there are ample derivatives and cognates (see s.vv. Proto-Luwic *zahhā- ‘fight’ and Proto-Anatolian *zóH-/*zH-´(i) ‘to fight’) and thus, a comparison with this word family is possible. The problem is that although the word would even fit the inscription semantically (S3 is the so-called Longer Strategos Votive Inscription), the segmentation and the meaning of this sequence (especially the string xnebarśaka, cf. also †znekarś) as well as the Sidetic reflex of the initial consonant of Proto-Luwic *zahhā- and Proto-Anatolian *zóH-/*zH- are completely unknown and thus, śaka must be treated as a ghost-word until corroborating evidence emerges.
[Zs.S.]
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘fight’
Based on the Lycian factitive zxxa-(ti) ‘to put on a fight’, the existence of an action noun *zaxa- ‘fight’ can be assumed (Melchert 2015c:161, Sasseville 2015a:288) derived in turn from the verb attested in Hittite as zāḫ-/zaḫḫ-(i) ‘to fight’. It is likely that this is an exact cognate of the noun found in Luwian personal names, e.g. /Zahha-mu-/ (see above for literature).
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For the lemma head see PAnat. *zóH-/*zH-´(i).