/suhidi-(ti)?/, (MANUS.ARMA)su-hi-i-ti-
‘to make complete’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 822
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/suhidi-(ti)?/, (MANUS.ARMA)su-hi-i-ti-
‘to make complete’1.1.1Transmission
The attestation of this hapax legomenon dates to around 800 BCE and originates from an inscription from Karkamiš.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. ind. act. | /suhidihha/ | (MANUS.ARMA)su-hi-i-ti-ha | KARKAMIŠ A15b, §14 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The explicit syllabic spelling used for this word leaves little room for ambiguity, and the suggested phonological form can therefore be taken as reasonably certain. Despite a lack of the relevant forms proving it for the present verb, it is highly likely that /suhidi-/ belongs to the Luwian unlenited mi-conjugation, as do other members of the same stem class, and it therefore shows a fortis /-hha/ for its ending rather than a lenis /-ha/.
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1.1.4Meaning
Because the present word is a hapax legomenon, its meaning has long escaped scholars; for an older interpretation see Hawkins 2000a:131.Yakubovich 2019a:581 reinterprets the verb based on its cognate links with the adjective /su-/ ‘complete, full’ and the noun /suhid-/ ‘completeness’, translating the clause in question as: ‘…, when I armed him (lit.: made him complete with arms) for pre-eminence over kings’. Both logograms used, MANUS (*59) and ARMA (*273), support this interpretation.
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1.1.5Stem
The verb is derived from the noun /suhid-/ ‘completeness(?)’ by way of the suffix /-i-/, which can be observed in a number of other verbs, cf. the examples given in Sasseville 2021a. Verbs with this suffix show the endings of the unlenited mi-conjugation.
[AH.B.]
For the base of the derivative see HLuw. /su(wa)hid-/.