/i(ya)ssa-⁽ⁱ⁾/, (“CONTRACTUS”)i-sa-

This lexeme is only found in inscriptions and letters of the 8^th century BCE.

[D.S.]

1sg. pres. ind. act.	/issawi/	i-sa-wa/i-i	KIRŞEHİR fragment, 1 §1(Tabal)
3pl. pret. ind. act.	/iyassanta/	(“CONTRACTUS”)i-ia-sá-ta	TÜNP 1, §1 (Karkamiš)
		(“CONTRACTUS”)i-sa-ta	CEKKE, §6b (Karkamiš)
2sg. impv. act.	/iyassa/	i-ia-sa	ASSUR letter f+g, §34 (Assur)

For the attribution of the HLuw. form i-sa-u-ta (attested in ASSUR letter f+g, §28) to a different lexeme, see Sasseville 2021a:193f.

[D.S.]

Meriggi 1967b:109 (and Meriggi 1975a:102) translates the verb /i(ya)ssa-⁽ⁱ⁾/ as ‘to buy’, which takes a land or a city as direct object in transaction contexts in TÜNP 1 and CEKKE. Further evidence for the semantic interpretation of Meriggi is adduced by Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1982a, who consider further attestations and assign the complete phonetic reading i-(ia)-sa-. Furthermore, the two authors recognizes the use of the preverb CUM-ni + dat. with /i(ya)ssa-⁽ⁱ⁾/ as meaning ‘to buy from’ (followed by among others Hawkins 2000a:147, Giusfredi 2010b:302, Weeden 2013b:16).

[D.S.]

Melchert 1989b:42 analyzes /i(ya)ssa-⁽ⁱ⁾/ as an iterative in /-ssa-⁽ⁱ⁾/ of a non-attested base */iya-/, but assumes that the imperfective form has been lexicalized. Therefore, there would be no longer any imperfective aspect to reckon with.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see HLuw. */iya-⁽ⁱ⁾/.