ūmmayalla/i-

The verb is found in a song called “the song of growth” sung by the chanter of the Palaic god Ziparwa during the ritual for the disappearing deity. This song, previously thought to be Palaic, has now been re-interpreted as an archaic Luwian dialect by Sasseville 2021a:368-371, comparable to the one of the town of Ištanuwa.

[D.S.]

nom./acc. pl. n.	ú-um-ma-ia-al-la	KUB 32.18 iv 9’	(CTH 751, MS)
		KUB 32.18 iv 11’	(CTH 751, MS)
		KUB 32.18 iv 13’	(CTH 751, MS)
		KUB 32.18 iv 15’	(CTH 751, MS)
	⸢ú⸣[-um-ma-ia-al-la]	KUB 32.18 iv 17’	(CTH 751, MS)
	ú-um-ma-ia-a[l-la]	KUB 32.16, 2’	(CTH 752, OS)
		KUB 32.16, 9’	(CTH 752, OS)
	[ú-um-ma-i]a-al-la	KUB 32.16, 5’	(CTH 752, OS)
	ú-um-ma-ia-al-l[a]	KUB 32.16, 7’	(CTH 752, OS)
	ú-um-ma[-i-ia-al-la]	KUB 32.16, 11’	(CTH 752, OS)

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

[D.S.]

The adjective ūmmayalla modifies tūwa ‘crops, harvest’, which is not prospering, but should. It is analyzed by Sasseville 2021a:370 as an adjective in -alla/i- derived from CLuw. ūmmaya- ‘the non-growing, ungrowth’. Therefore, the adjective ūmmayalla/i- would meaning ‘belonging to the non-growth’ and the sentence can be translated as ‘The non-growing crops, it must grow!’.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. mai-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾.