/zuP-/, zú-pu-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 706
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/zuP-/, zú-pu-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The form is a hapax legomenon, whose sole attestation can be found on a stone inscription from Malatya, dating to the early or mid-8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| inf. | /zuPuna/ | zú-pu-na | ŞIRZI, §4 (Malatya) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Regarding the stem of the form, the phonological interpretation of the present lexeme is partly doubtful. While the onset is clear (regarding the reading of 〈zú〉 for *448 see e.g. Melchert 2012a:210), the quality of the root-final stop may be either fortis or lenis, neither of which can be proved on the basis of regular HLuw. orthography. As for the ending, the form very probably constitutes an infinitive, whose phonological shape is well-known from other verbs.
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1.1.4Meaning
The verb appears in a clause containing one more unknown word, following after a clause in which the deity Runtiya of the Open Country is called upon to perform an action: wa/i-tu (COR)hú-sà(-)SERVUS-wa/i-sá hwa/i-tà-ni-ia-za zú-pu-na pi-pa-sa-tu, i.e. /wa=du husa-SERVUS-wis? hwidniyanza zuPuna pibassattu/, which may possibly mean ‘And may h. grant him game animals to zup-’ vel sim.
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1.1.5Stem
The form very likely constitutes the infinitive of a verb. Nothing can be said about its stem formation, however.
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