Luwian and Sanskrit action nouns in *-i̯-eh2-

Abstract

The Luwian nominal class of common gender a-stems, which has been argued to reflect Proto-Indo-European stems in *-eh2-, has not yet been explored to a full extent. In Cuneiform Luwian, a number of action nouns in -a- c. derived from verbs in -i(ya)- (< *-i̯e/o-) have been noticed by scholars, but a larger analysis of all examples including Hieroglyphic Luwian is still lacking. It is the goal of the present paper to fill this gap. After a synchronic analysis of all examples, their stem formation will be compared to a similar derivational process found in Sanskrit. Consequently, the comparative evidence will shed light on the function of the suffix *-eh2- in Proto-Indo-European, including Anatolian.

Internal or external evil: a merism in Luwian incantations

“…The substantivization of this adjective within Luwian may have been accompanied by its transfer to the a -declension (for the pattern, cf. Sasseville 2014–15), although alternatively this paradigm, as opposed to the mutation stem, may merely reflect the stress on the thematic vowel. Under either of the proposed hypotheses, forms like /ir(hu)walli(ya/i)-/ and /irhuwass(a/i)-/ represent secondary derivatives formed at the time when the /irh(uw)a-/ “inside, interior” had already become a substantive.…”