/haniyattastarr(i)-/, (MALUS2)ha-ní-ia-ta-sa-tara/i-
‘badness’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 700
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/haniyattastarr(i)-/, (MALUS2)ha-ní-ia-ta-sa-tara/i-
‘badness’1.1.1Transmission
A hapax legomenon, this lexeme is attested in the Hu. version of the KARATEPE bilingual, which dates to the beginning of the 7th century BCE. The Ho. version of the bilingual is damaged in the relevant section.
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | /haniyattastarradi/ | (MALUS2)ha-ní-ia-ta-sa-tara/i-ti | KARATEPE 1 Hu., §72b (Cilicia) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The sole attestation of this lexeme is fully spelt-out in syllabic signs, permitting a reasonably secure phonological interpretation, although the suffix has seen some debate regarding its phonological shape. The suffix is used in quite a number of HLuw. as well as CLuw. formations, yet its spelling and its complexity leave considerable room for interpretation. Its shape has variously been posited as /-star-/ (Starke 1990a:384-399 with discussion of its spelling and interpretation at various points), /-s(t)ra/i-/ (CLL:65), and /-starr(i)-/ (Yakubovich 2016b:471) among others.
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1.1.4Meaning
This lexeme appears in the multi-clausal protasis of a curse formula in the KARATEPE bilingual, translating the Phoenician phrase w-b-rʿ ‘and from malice’, and it follows a clause with the lexeme /attuwalastarr(i)-/ ‘viciousness’ (thus already Steinherr 1974b:115), suggesting an abstract and somewhat similar, yet not identical meaning for /haniyattastarr(i)-/. In fact, /haniyattastarr(i)-/ may denote badness based on actions or incidents rather than the more sweeping character judgement implied by /attuwalastarr(i)-/.
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1.1.5Stem
Based on the noun /haniyatta-/ ‘bad thing’, the present lexeme is derived by way of the suffix /starr(i)-/, which is used to form de-adjectival animate nouns with an abstract meaning (Melchert 2003b:196; Yakubovich 2016b:471). The derivational base /haniyatta-/ is in itself an abstract noun already, calling into question why another would be needed. However, it is likely that the denotation of /haniyatta-/ underwent a secondary concretisation and therefore necessitated the formation of another abstract noun proper.
[AH.B.]
For the derivational base see HLuw. /haniyatta-/.