How To Use Luwian In A Sentence
- Considering the Luwian stem tawa-, it makes more sense that it was Latin that borrowed the Etruscan word and that this verb is much older than Etruscan, probably stemming right back to the Proto-Aegean parent which I situate in the Aegean islands, Western Turkey and Cyprus. Archive 2010-06-01
- Indeed, the possibility that it was originally a Luwian loanword hints at its much greater antiquity.
- First off, what was immediately shocking to me was that I wasn't even aware of Luwian tawa- 'eye' when I supplied the value of 'to see, to behold' and also 'to make see; to show' to the apparent verb root *tau. The Minoan word for 'eye'
- Things get more complicated if one ponders a scenario where budding Anatolian dialects are affected by the Satem wave in the north of the Anatolian area and later on provide the basis for satem-like results in Luwian by way of dialect mergers and such. Diachrony of PIE
- While Luwian verb tabar- 'to rule' is attested, he notes that it coincidentally remains unanalysable in Indo-European terms. Diktaian Master of Crete?
- After the fall of the Hittite Empire, so-called hieroglyphic Hittite was used to write inscriptions in the Luwian language. B. Economy, Technology, Society, and Culture
