zārizza-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 885
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
zārizza-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The noun occurs twice in NS fragments of a birth incantation.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | za-ri-iz-za-an | KBo 29.28 obv. 3 | (CTH 765, MS?) |
| za-a-ri-iz-z[a-an] | KBo 29.29 obv.? 5’ | (CTH 765, MS?) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
While it is tempting to connect zārizza- to the word family around zarā(i)- ‘to sway, wave (?)’ (see under Lemma; tentatively suggested by Sasseville 2021a:96), the isolated plene spelling calls for caution. Even the reading of w]a-ar-ša ‘water’ in KBo 29.28 obv. 5, which could support a meaning ‘wave’ vel sim., is not assured.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The form zārizzan allows for a classification as a non-mutating stem with the -zza- suffix, probably derived from a base ending in -iya- (Yakubovich, pers. comm.), or with the denominal suffix -izza- from a base *zar- (Sasseville 2021a:96).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head, see *zar-.