wardul(i)-

This lemma is found in a festival text and on a ritual fragment.

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nom. sg.	wa-ar-du-li-iš	KUB 35.133 iii 20	(CTH 665, LNS)
unknown	wa-ar-du-[	KUB 35.109 iii 4	(CTH 765, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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After a long prayer for blessings for the king and the city of Ḫattuša, the ašušatalla- officials sit down to feast. Then, someone libates and speaks another prayer, in which the hearth and the wardul(i)- are juxtaposed as subjects. Unfortunately, nothing else of the sentence is preserved, but it is likely that wardul(i)- denotes another central part of the house (see also under wardul(i)- in Hittite transmission, and Otten 1953a:54 for other lists of parts of the house).

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Although the nom. sg. alone is not entirely conclusive, statistics speak for a stem ending in an -l- suffix with i-mutation; however, an -i(ya)-adjective of the same stem cannot be entirely ruled out.

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In Hittite transmission, the lexeme is attested once in the NS fragment of a purification ritual.

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nom. sg.

wa-ar-du-li-iš

KUB 7.13 obv. 20

(CTH 456, NS)

The attestations of ^(GIŠ)wardul(i)- (a plant) are subsumed under a different lemma.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The semantic interpretation of wardul(i)- as the part of the house is based on a ritual passage where it is listed together with GUNNI ‘hearth’ (like in the Cuneiform Luwian passage at KUB 35.133 iii 20): ⁽¹⁸⁾... EGIR-a[n-ma-w(a-ra)-an] ⁽¹⁹⁾ḫu-i-im-ma-aš tar-na-a-ú kat-ta-an-ma-wa-ra-an ta-ga-an-[zi-(pa-aš)] ⁽²⁰⁾GIŠ.ÙR^? tar-na-a-ú GUNNI-aš-wa-ra-an wa-ar-du-li-iš-[ša^?] ⁽²¹⁾tar-na-a-ú ^GIŠa-ra-ša-aš-wa-ra-an ^GIŠkat-ta-lu-uz-〈zi〉-ia t[ar-na-a-ú] “..., behind, let the ḫuimma- release [him]. Below, let the flo[o(r)] and (scil. above) the beam release him. Let the hearth [and^?] the wardul(i)- release him. Let the door and the lintel r[elease] him” (KUB 7.13 obv. 18-21, based on EDHIL:979). As with several other terms in the same semantic field, the information does not serve to elucidate the meaning more precisely. As noted in EDHIL:979, it seems impossible to reconcile wardul(i)- ‘(a part of the house)’ with the homonymous name of a plant ^(GIŠ)wardul(i)-. While their attestations are merged into a single lemma in DLL:108, Jakob-Rost 1972a:72, EDHIL:979, CLL:261, and HEG U-Z :375, in the present dictionary they are kept apart, and ^(GIŠ)wardul(i)- regarded as genuinely Hittite. Accordingly, the switch between the i-stem in the nominative and accusative (e.g. KUB 24.10 iii 29’) and the a-stem in the genitive (once, in KUB 24.10 iii 30’) is interpreted here as imitating the pattern of the Luwian i-mutated stems, for which see Rieken 1994a.

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Within Hittite, the stem of the nom. sg. belongs to the common gender nouns in -i-, whereas for the oblique case forms, no evidence has surfaced thus far.

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The substantive wardul(i)- in Cuneiform Luwian transmission is seen as the cognate or origin of wardul(i)- in Hittite (DLL:108, CLL:261, HEG U-Z:375).

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