/ashanatt(i)-/, á-sa-ha-na-ti-
‘blood- offering(?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 678
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/ashanatt(i)-/, á-sa-ha-na-ti-
‘blood- offering’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon, whose sole attestation can be found in an inscription from Karkamiš, dating to the late 9th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| poss. adj. nom./acc. sg. n |
/ashanattissanza/ | á-sa-ha-na-ti-sa-za | KÖRKÜN, rev. 3§7 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is reasonably clear, because both the root /ashar/n-/ as well as the final suffix /-assa/i-/ are well-known from Anatolian cognates and other HLuw. words respectively.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word being a hapax legomenon, its semantic interpretation remains somewhat tentative. Therefore, the meaning given relies on the morphological link to CLuw. /ashar/ ‘blood’ and further cognate words there as well as in the other Anatolian languages.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The form appears to be a possessive adjective in /-assa/i-/, which is derived from a stem in /-atti-/ based on the oblique stem of the r/n-heteroclitic /ashar/n-/ ‘blood’, cf. Starke 1990a:557f.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head see HLuw. */ashar-/.