/warall(i)-/, wa/i+ra/i-li-
‘relative’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 1257
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/warall(i)-/, wa/i+ra/i-li-
‘relative’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of this hapax legomenon occurs on one of the inscriptions from Tell Ahmar, dating to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | /warallinzi/ | wa/i+ra/i-li-zi | TELL AHMAR 5, §9 (Tell Ahmar) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Despite just a single attestation, the phonological interpretation of this word can be regarded as reasonably secure, as it belongs to the word family around the adjective /waralla/i-/ ‘own’, see under lemma.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The basis for the present meaning was laid when Hawkins 2000a:233 followed the morphological encoding of TELL AHMAR 5, §9 to the letter, analysing /warallinzi/ as a nom. pl. c. and thus the subject of the clause and translating it as ‘the own (people)’. This is preceded by a temporal clause /ammis=ba=wa tadis kwi ahha walatta/ ‘But when my father died’, rendering the meaning of /warallinzi/ as ‘relatives’ highly likely: za-a-pa-wa/i-ta DEUS-ni-na wa/i+ra/i-li-zi FLUMEN-pi-i INFRA-ta+ra/i (LONGUS)ia+ra/i-ta, approx. /zan=ba=wa=tta massanin warallinzi habi annantarri iyarrinta/ ‘The relatives extended this god down to the river’.
[AH.B.] [I.Y.]
1.1.5Stem
The lexeme constitutes a conversion of the adjective /waralla/i-/ ‘own’ into a noun. Referring to animates, it shows common gender inflection and is consequently subject to i-mutation.
[AH.B.]