/sarkunalla-/, sa5+ra/i-ku-na-la-
‘shoe maker (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 958
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/sarkunalla-/, sa5+ra/i-ku-na-la-
‘shoe maker (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is a hapax legomenon, attested once on a lead strip from Tabal, which dates to the mid- or late 8th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | /sarkunalla/ | sa5+ra/i-ku-na-la | KULULU lead strip 2, §20 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this noun is mainly based on the shape of the verb it is related to without being directly derived from it: /sark-/ ‘to make shoes?’ (see discussion under lemma). The suffix used is well-known from other lemmata, cf. the discussion of the stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Given its morphological transparency, the lexeme should be assumed to be an agent noun in /-alla-/ related to the verb /sark(u)-?/ ‘to make shoes’, which appears in the preceding clause on the same lead strip. The contexts mentions the allocation of 200 sheep to Attiwarmiya, the /sarkunalla-/, i.e. providing the shoe maker with raw material for his trade.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
As an agent noun, the lexeme is derived from the infinitive /sarkuna/ of the verb /sark-/ ‘to make shoes’ by the frequently used suffix /-alla-/. Although the sole attested form of the present lexeme does not provide overt evidence for it, nouns in /-alla-/ are usually common gender and do not show i-mutation, cf. Sasseville 2014-2015a:110, 120.
[AH.B.] [D.S.]