winiyant-

The word is attested in the Ištanuwa tradition: five times in the Lallupija tablet and twice, with the determinative ^D, in festival fragments.

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acc. sg.	[ú]-⸢i⸣-ni-ia-an-da-an	KUB 25.37 iii 17’	(CTH 771, NS)
	⸢ú-i-ni⸣-ia-an-da-an	KUB 25.37 iii 19’	(CTH 771, NS)
	ú-i-ni-ia-an-da-an	KUB 25.37 iii 19’	(CTH 771, NS)
	[ú]-⸢i⸣-ni-ia-an-da-an	KUB 35.131 iv 4’	(CTH 771, NS)
	⸢ú⸣-i-ni-ia-an-da-an	KUB 35.131 iv 6’	(CTH 771, NS)
	D⸢ú⸣-i-⸢ni⸣-ia-an-ta-an	KUB 55.65 iv 16’	(CTH 772, NS)
	[Dú-i-ni-i]a-an-⸢ta-an⸣	KUB 55.65 iv 23’	(CTH 772, NS)

The occurrence at KUB 55.65 iv 23’ is a restoration by Groddek (Groddek 2002b:123, not yet found in Starke 1985b:313). The word occurs with the determinative for divine names at KUB 55.65 iv 16’, in which it designates very likely a divinization of the concrete substance mentioned at KUB 25.37 and KUB 35.131 and it is, therefore, listed here.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The form ú-i-ni-ya-an-da-an in KUB 25.37 and KUB 35.131, interpreted as the Cuneiform Luwian word for ‘wine’ by some scholars (DLL:111, Ünal 2007a:976, Neumann 1973a:248), occurs in a Hittite context (CLL:269) and does not show i-mutation. However, there is reason to believe that the origin of the word is Cuneiform Luwian and only its inflection is Hittite (Starke 1985b:347 n. 196). In KUB 55.65, the word occurs twice with the determinative ^D indicating a deity, a personification of winiyant-. The same presumably applies to the occurrences in KUB 25.37 iii 17’ and KUB 35.131 iv 4’ and 6’, where the form appears without a determinative, but in the expression ‘to drink to a deity (acc.)’: ú-i-ni-ya-an-da-an a-ku-an-zi ‘they drink to winiyant-’ and ú-i-ni-ya-an-da-an a-ku-an-na ir-ḫa-a-an-zi ‘they stop drinking to winiyant-’. KUB 25.37 iii 18-19 reads ḫal-zi-iš-ša-an-zi-ma ki-iš-ša-an ú-i-ni-ya-an-da-an ú-i-ni-ya-an-da-an e-ku-zi ‘they shout as follows: winiyant-, he drinks winiyant-!’ (cf. CHD Š:318, where winiyant- is translated as ‘wine’), not permitting a more precise determination of the meaning of winiyant-.

The word probably derives from an inherited *wi(ya)n- ‘wine’ (cf. CLL:269) by means of the relational suffix -i(ya)- and the possessive suffix -ant-. Considering the function of both suffixes, the word should mean something like ‘having what belongs to wine’. It seems to have been borrowed into Hittite as winiyant- (or winiyanta-) ‘having grapes, grapevine’ (HEG L-N:277), which semantically contrasts with CLuw. maddu- ‘wine’. The same opposition can be found in HLuw. wa/i-ia-ni- ‘(grape)vine’ vs. mattu- ‘wine’ (cf. Maier 2013a:229 n. 1250). When referring to a deity, the meaning of winiyant- is individualized as ‘the one having grapes’.

One can hypothesize that originally there were two words for ‘wine’ in Luwian, *wi(ya)n- and maddu-, possibly referring to different types of wine (for the meaning of mattu- ‘mead, honey wine’ following Melchert 1993a:147, see under Lemma). The meaning of maddu- eventually came to mean ‘wine’ in general, while *wi(ya)n- only survived in derived, more specific wine-related vocabulary (grapevine, grapes, etc.).

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The stem, as found in the festival texts, inflects as a Hittite nt-stem. For the suffixes, see under Meaning.

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This lexeme was written together with the intern Elia Weber.

For the lemma head see *wiyan(i)-.