/wiyani(ya)-/, wa/i-ia-ni-
‘vine’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 1759
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/wiyani(ya)-/, wa/i-ia-ni-
‘vine’1.1.1Transmission
The corpus holds six attestations of this lexeme, all of which can be found either in Karkamiš or Tabal and date to the Iron Age Luwian era. The oldest attestation appears in a quite archaic text (KARKAMIŠ A30h), which is roughly dated to between the 13th and the 11th century BCE, while the remaining attestations date to the 9th and 8th centuries BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | /wiyanis/ | (“VITIS”)wa/i-ia-ni-sa | SULTANHAN, §7 (Tabal) |
| wa/i-ia-ni-i-sa | SULTANHAN, §23 (Tabal) | ||
| wa/i-ia-ni-sá | SULTANHAN, §15 (Tabal) | ||
| acc. sg. | /winin/ | (VITIS)wa/i-ni-na | KÖRKÜN, obv. §11 (Karkamiš) |
| gen. sg. | /wiyanisi?/ | wa/i-ia-ni-[si?-]i | KULULU 1, §8 (Tabal) |
| abl./instr. | /wiyanidi/ | (X)wa/i-ní-ti | KARKAMIŠ A30h, §3 (Karkamiš) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Due to its explicit spelling, the phonological interpretation of this lexeme is assured. The attestation in KÖRKÜN exhibits the frequent contraction associated with glides in HLuw. (cf. e.g. Melchert 2003b:183).
The sign VITIS (*160) also has a phonetic reading, /wi(ya)/, doubtlessly derived by acrophonic principle from /wiyani(ya)-/ ‘vine’ or a closely related, but unattested word. For a systematic treatment of the sign VITIS, which also seems to be used in a country name in KARAÖREN, see Weeden 2018a.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning ‘vine’ for this lexeme was first proposed by Hawkins 2000a:468, contrasting it with /mattu-/ ‘wine’. In most cases, ‘vine’ constitutes without doubt the most appropriate interpretation, but in KÖRKÜN and KARKAMIŠ A30h it appears to be somewhat at odds with the respective context, resulting in alternative interpretations put forward by two scholars. Weeden 2018a:341f. advocates to interpret /wiyani(ya)-/ as ‘wine’ in the context of KARKAMIŠ A30h, because it occurs in a context together with what appears to be ‘barley’; for KÖRKÜN, he suggests ‘vineyard’ by metonymic extension or as having a collective meaning and even goes so far as to regard it as a metaphor for ‘progeny’ because of its peculiar context and appearance. Schürr 2019b:49 also proposes ‘wine’ for KARKAMIŠ A30h and ‘vine’ for KÖRKÜN.
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1.1.5Stem
Clearly a common gender noun, the lexeme appears to be a substantivized adjective in -i(ya)-; cf. Oettinger 2003a:143f. and the Reconstruction under the lemma head.
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For the lemma head, see HLuw. */wiyan(i)-/.