Luvian

The frequent Glossenkeile make Luvian provenance of the verb likely.

5) Using excerpts from several inscriptions, but the complete versions of the related CtNEKOY and KARATEPE 1 texts, she offers the first serious comprehensive analysis of the literary structure and diction of Hieroglyphic Luvian texts.

Nevertheless, his most important finding is that Hittite does have rather more genuine examples of denominal -want- than previously acknowledged (at least eighteen), even if the degree of productivity appears to be less than that in Luvian.

And Tony Fusaro, who owns Luvian's ice cream parlour, added: "William will want to do the things that 18-year-olds do without everyone knowing.

The Hieroglyphic Luvian sign for 'sky, heaven' and for 'bowl', conventionally rendered 'CAELUM', has the shape of a shallow bowl (reflecting the conception of the sky in bowl shape); it appears in self-referential inscriptions ("this bowl") on two silver bowls of second-millennium Anatolian provenance (Hawkins 1993, 1997, 2005).

This case has no direct correspondences in the morphological systems of other ancient Indo-European languages, but it is not isolated within the Anatolian family: locatives in -a are attested in Palaic, (20) and Luvian also shows occasional locatives in -a beside usual dative-locative singular forms in -i.

The account of the two forms of Luvian also reflects many of the important revisions made in the scholarship of the last thirty years.

Melchert, Anatolian Historical Phonology (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994), 21-22; "Luvian," in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, ed.

The magisterial and epoch-making new edition of Hieroglyphic Luvian texts of the first millennium by David Hawkins has now led to two new introductions to the language, one of which is reviewed here.

The Hittite and Luvian textual sources and the linguistic arguments that Latacz adduces in order to show that Homer somehow really did know of Troy are, however, much less secure.

Melchert analyzes the Hieroglyphic Luvian Inscription of the Sudburg, maintaining, unlike D.

7 points also to the appearance of the (unextended) divine name (DEUS)Ta-sa-ku-/Taskus/ in the Hieroglyphic Luvian inscription ANCOZ 1, [section]3 (it is also attested, sometimes with the spelling Ta-sa-ku-, in ANCOZ 5, 1.

The treatment of primary nouns in -al is not satisfactory, depending too much on false analyses of Luvian by Starke.