ḫiyaluwand(i)-

The word ^GIŠḫiyaluwand(i)- is attested only once in a small NS ritual fragment.

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dat./loc. pl.

GIŠḫi-ya-lu-wa-an-da-an-z[a]

KBo 29.49, 5’

(CTH 759, NS)

If the word is a substantive and contains the suffix -ant(i)- or -want(i)-, a further derivation of a neuter noun (-(a)- stem building a nom./acc. pl. in -anza) is highly improbable, as would be a secondarily thematized nom./acc. pl. n. form in -anza of an adjective of the productive -ant(i)- and -want(i)- types (pace CLL:70).

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Checked against the photograph in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The word occurs in the context of washing, building roads, and wool. Being classified as a wooden object by the determinative GIŠ, the lexeme can plausibly be assumed to denote an artefact (instead of being an adjective, pace CLL:70; not listed in DLL).

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Melchert (CLL:70) plausibly analyses ^GIŠḫiyaluwand(i)- as a possessive derivative in -ant(i)- or -want(i)-, and seeks its base in syncopated ^GIŠḫīlu- (see under Lemma ^GIŠḫīluwa) The latter connection is formally possible, but not semantically supported beyond the common use of the determinative GIŠ.

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