ḫuitwalaḫi(t)-

The transmission of the lexeme includes the festival for the Storm-god and the Sun-god and texts from the Kuwattalla tradition. Most manuscripts are NS copies.

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nom./acc. sg. n.	ḫu-u-it-wa-la-a-ḫi	KUB 35.133 ii 30’	(CTH 665, LNS)
abl./instr.	[ḫ]u-u-i-du-wa-la-a-ḫi-ta-ti	KUB 35.43 ii 38	(CTH 761, NS)
	ḫu-i-it-wa-la-ḫi-⟨ta⟩-˹ti˺	KUB 35.45 ii 8	(CTH 760, NS)
	ḫu-it-wa-la-ḫi-⟨ta⟩-ti	KUB 32. 8 + 5 iv 14’	(CTH 759, NS)
	ḫu-it-wa-la-ḫi-⟨ta⟩-ti	KBo 29.31 iv 8’	(CTH 756, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Starke 1985b:280 (based on Otten 1953a:48 and followed in CLL:84) reads ḫu-u-ịt-wa-la-a-ḫi-ša-ḫa^! at KUB 35.133 ii 30’ and remarks that the last two signs are written above an erasure. However, they are clearly below the erasure, which corresponds to the fact that preceding annarumāḫi is likewise devoid of the secondary ending -ša. – The repeated omission of -ta- in the abl./instr. forms is remarkable.

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In all its occurrences, the word forms a pair with ānnarummaḫi(t)- ‘strength’ in lists of blessings to be bestowed on the ritual patron. The meaning was elucidated by Otten 1953a:86 by means of the equivalence with Hitt. ḫuišwatar/TI-tar ‘life’, which is combined with innarawatar in parallel fashion (with the addition of ḫaddulatar ‘health’). The equation found general acceptance, see Kammenhuber 1959a:226f., DLL:47, Starke 1990a:166, HED H:354f., HEG A-K:264, CLL:84, Ünal 2007a:224, EDHIL:354f.

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It is immediately obvious that ḫuitwalaḫi(t)- ‘life’ is derived from ḫuitwal(i)- with the abstract suffix -aḫi(t)-, see already Otten 1953a:86f. and Kammenhuber 1959a:228, more recently e.g. Starke 1990a:166.

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For the derivational base see CLuw. ḫuitwal(i)-.