/awimma-?/, “PES”-wa/i-ma-
‘to be forthcoming(?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 735
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/awimma-?/, “PES”-wa/i-ma-
‘to be forthcoming(?)’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax legomenon is attested once in an inscription from Tabal, whose dating is uncertain, although its epigraphy suggests a late origin.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | /awimmatta?/ | “PES”-wa/i-ma-ta | PORSUK, §2 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is based on its use of the logogram PES (sign *90), which is found mainly with the verb /awi-/ ‘to come’ as well as other related verbs such as /usa-(i)/ ‘to bring, to lead(?)’ and /uppa-(i)/ ‘to send (hither), to bring’.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
While the exact meaning of the verb is not quite clear, it is preceded by the adverb /wasu/ ‘good, well’, which suggests that it is related to the frequently used phrase /wasu awi-/ ‘to come well (for someone)’ used in clause §4 in the same inscription (Hawkins 2000a:528). Curiously, the intervening clause also makes use of a similar phrasing, but again with a different verb, /wasu uzamma-/, presumably meaning something similar.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The stem of the verb ends in /-a-/, but its stem formation remains largely unclear for a lack of similar verbs that could be adduced for comparison, save perhaps for the verb found in the next clause after the present lexeme, (“PES”)u-za-ma-ta, whose morphology is just as opaque. Its single attested form gives insufficient evidence for assigning /awimma-/ to a conjugation pattern. With /-tta/ for the 3sg. pret. act., it may belong to the mi- or the ḫi-conjugation, as both can be found with verbs in /-a-/, cf. Sasseville 2021a:20, 342.
[AH.B.]