warwantali(ya)-

Being a hapax, the word is attested only in the NS Festival of the Tutelary Deities.

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In principle, a gen. sg. of a stem in -iya- c. is also possible, but see under Stem.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The lexeme is used as an epithet of ^DĀla-, the consort of the Tutelary Deity, in a long list of such epithets: ^DA-a-la-aš wa-˹ar˺-wa-an-ta-li-ia-aš. It follows the ^DA-a-la-aš gi-im-ma-ra-aš wa-aḫ-nu-w[a-a]n-da-aš (ibid. iii 42) “Āla- of the turned field”. If the latter can be interpreted as the “Āla- of the ploughed field” (contra McMahon 1991a:109), at least the epithet preceding warwantali(ya)- deals with agricultural aspects of the deity (aššattaš in the following line is semantically unclear). This renders very likely a connection with the derivatives of *warwa- ‘seed, progeny’, see under CLuw. warawalan(a)- (cf. Archi 1975a:97: “di colui che genera(?)”, followed in HEG U-Z:378: “vielleicht ‘für die Nachkommenschaft zuständig’ o.ä.”; differently McMahon 1991a:109 n. 122; no meaning in Ünal 2007a:792). The meaning assigned here, i.e. ‘related to reproduction’ vel sim., is kept very general at this point and awaits further evidence to narrow it down.

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The present form can be either the gen. sg. of a substantive in -iya- or the nom. sg. of an adjective in -i(ya)-. Since the most common sequence of derivational elements would include the base *warwa- + -(a)nt- (poss. adj.) + -ala- + -i(ya)- (adj.), the adjective is preferred here. Although nothing excludes assuming that the -i(ya)- adjective is further derived as a non-mutating abstract noun (c.), it is less economical.

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1. ^PÚWarwataliyanza (HEG U-Z:378)

The lexemes derived from *warwa/i- are well attested in Luwian, and those found in Hittite transmission are at least partly marked by gloss wedges (()warwalan(a)-) or feature Luwian endings (dat./loc. pl. ^PÚWarwataliyanza). Considering the fact that many of the epithets of the Tutelary Deity and his consort ^DĀla- are Luwian, it is very probable that warwantaliyaš is another instance of the same phenomenon. Further evidence can be used from the etymological perspective, see PAnat. *u̯r̥u̯-o-.

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