/warall(a)i-(di)/, wa/i+ra/i-li-
‘to adopt, to make one’s own (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1258
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/warall(a)i-(di)/, wa/i+ra/i-li-
‘to adopt, to make one’s own (?)’1.1.1Transmission
Attested once, this hapax legomenon occurs on an inscription from Tell Ahmar, dating to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | /warallida/ | wa/i+ra/i-li-tà | TELL AHMAR 6, §18 (Tell Ahmar) |
The spelling of the attestation in TELL AHMAR 6, §18 is 〈wa/i+ra/i-li-tà〉 against the misprint of the ending as 〈ta〉 in the editio princeps in Hawkins 2006a:14.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
As a member of the word family around /waralla/i-/ ‘own’, the present verb has a reasonably secure phonological interpretation. The ending should be assumed to be /-di/, because it is spelt with 〈tà〉 instead of any of the other TA signs, cf. Rieken 2008b:639.
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1.1.4Meaning
Derived from the adjective /waralla/i-/ ‘own’, the general meaning of this verb is clear (see already Hawkins 2006a:26), although further finds may help to make it more precise. In the only context it is attested in (TELL AHMAR 6, §18), /warall(a)i-(di)/ denotes an action performed by the storm-god: *a-wa/i-ma-sa LITUUS+na-hi-i-tà (VIA)hu-sa-la-hi-tà-ha wa/i+ra/i-li-tà, i.e. /a=wa=m(u)=as manahidi husallahidi=ha warallida/ ‘He (scil. Tarhunza of the Army) made me his own in vision and swiftness?’, and the author goes on to relate subsequent success in warfare.
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1.1.5Stem
The use of 〈tà〉 for the ending indicates that the verb features lenited endings, and in all likelihood the lexeme belongs to the verbal class in /-(a)i-(di)/. Alternatively, it may belong to the class in /-i(ya)-(di)/ instead, but only further evidence from other slots in the paradigm can verify that. The verb is built from the adjective /waralla/i-/ ‘own’ with the suffix /-i-/, cf. Hawkins 2006a:26.
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