/zin/, zi-na
‘on this side’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 942
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/zin/, zi-na
‘on this side’1.1.1Transmission
Attested 15 times in the HLuw. corpus, this lexeme can be found in inscriptions from the south and south-east of the HLuw. area, covering a wide range of dates between the late 13th and the early 7th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | /zin/ | zi-i-na | KARKAMIŠ A6, §4 (Karkamiš) |
| zi-na | |||
| KARATEPE 1 Ho., §5 (Cilicia) | |||
| /zi(n)/ | zi-i(=) | KARKAMIŠ A6, §6 (Karkamiš) | |
| zi(=) | |||
| KARKAMIŠ A15b, §9 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The spelling of this lexeme permits a secure phonological interpretation. When followed by clitics that begin with a consonant, the word-final /n/ of /zin/ is omitted in spelling as is usual, cf. Melchert 2003d:182. In /zin/, the adverb shares a form with that of the form used for the abl./instr. of /za-/ ‘this’, and occasional plene spelling 〈zi-i-〉 has been shown to reflect a long accented vowel (Vertegaal 2018a:184-187), also see the discussion of the stem below.
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1.1.4Meaning
Despite a number of occurrences in the Karatepe bilingual inscription, the semantic interpretation of /zin/ was seriously hampered by the fact that not all of its uses are mirrored in the Phoenician version of the text, cf. e.g. Bossert 1948a:182 who analysed /zin/ as a preverb (reading it as 〈i-n〉 as was usual at that time). The meaning was further obscured by the fact that the form /zin/ is used for both the adverb as well as for the abl./instr. of the demonstrative /za-/ ‘this’ (see under lemma), and the two different usages were only identified and untangled in Goedegebuure 2007a. The adverb frequently occurs in pairs in adjacent clauses, which Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1978a:111, 115 were the first to treat as meaning ‘on the one side/hand, on the other side/hand’, cf. also Hawkins 2000a:59. A combination of /zin/ with the distal deictic /apin/ only occurs once (IZGIN 2, §4-5) and can likely not be used interchangeably with /zin—zin/ (Goedegebuure 2007a:330).
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1.1.5Stem
The lexeme is commonly assumed to belong to the word family around the proximal demonstrative /za-/ ‘this’, cf. e.g. EDHIL:425-427). Goedegebuure 2008a:333 shows that /zin/ not only represents an adverb, but has also been recruited into the paradigm of the proximal demonstrative /za-/ ‘this’, where it functions as the abl./instr., replacing older /zadi/, which has shifted completely into adverbial use, see under lemma. Goedegebuure 2010b:83 n. 19 notes a suggestion by O. Hackstein that /zin/ may go back to a petrified accusative used as an adverb, instead of representing an original adverbial formation in itself.
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For the lemma head, see HLuw. /za-/.