Doing Things Reverently among the Luwians

YAKUBOVICH, Ilya

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Title: Doing Things Reverently among the Luwians
Author(s): YAKUBOVICH, Ilya
Journal: Les Études Classiques
Volume: 88 Issue: 1-4 Date: 2020
Pages: 465-489
DOI: 10.2143/LEC.88.1.3290458

Abstract :
One of the most common Luwian verbs, izzi(ya)-^(di) ‘to do, make’, has been convincingly connected with the Proto-Indo-European root *Hi̯aĝ ‘to honour, worship’, but the details of its formal and semantic development have not been clarified up to now. The goal of this contribution is to demonstrate that we are dealing with the historical phrase *izzi + a-^(di) ‘to do or make reverently’, which was specialized as the acrolect equivalent of a-^(di) ‘to do, make’.

Bien que le lien entre izzi(ya)-^(di) ‘faire’, un des verbes les plus fréquents de la langue louvite, et la racine indo-européenne *Hi̯aĝ ‘honorer, vénérer’ soit établie de manière convaincante, les détails de l’évolution formelle et sémantique de ce verbe sont restés obscurs jusqu’à présent. Dans cette contribution, je reconstruis la combinaison *izzi + a-^(di) ‘agir, accomplir révérencieusement’, qui fonctionnait comme l’équivalent de *a-^(di) ‘faire’ dans un style plus élevé.

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