*mih₁-Éu̯-/-u-´

The Luwian word is attested only once in a NS manuscript of the Old Hittite festival of the Storm-god and the Sun-goddess.

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Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz. The attestation of ]mi-ia-u-wa-an-zi,  tentatively attributed to the lexeme in question in HED M:173, rather belongs to memiyauwanzi, the infinitive of ‘to speak’ (see Starke 1985b:195).

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The lexeme is attested as part of a long list of nom. pl. c. forms badly understood, but probably describing or denoting the clients of the ritual. Accordingly, its meaning must have a positive connotation. Based on its phonological shape, Starke 1989a:666 interprets the word as an equivalent of Hitt. miyu-/-aw- ‘gentle, mild’ and assigns the same meaning (Starke 1990a:62). This is accepted in the handbooks (CLL:149, HED M:173, EDHIL:584).

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Starke 1989a:446 rightly assumes that Luwian adjectives do no longer show ablaut in their i- and u-suffixes. As a consequence, he derives the nom. pl. c. mīyawinzi from a stem mīyawa/i-, i.e. from a thematized i-mutated stem that is based on the oblique stem miyaw-. As Melchert (CLL:149) correctly observes, the form taken by itself does not prove the a/i-inflection. However, it is the systematic argument that tips the scales towards the mutated stem.

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1. miwa-

CHD L-N:306-308