wāri(ya)-

Secured attestations of the word are found only in the “Tablet of Lallupiya” within the OH Ištanuwa festival.

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abl./instr.	wa-˹a˺-[ri-i]a-ti	KUB 25.37 i 5’	(CTH 771, NS)
	wa-ri-ia-ti	KUB 25.37 iii 30’	(CTH 771, NS)

The assignment of the fragmentary form (-)w]a-ri-e-a at KUB 35.62, 2’ without context, adduced in CLL:259, is less than assured. It is not even clear that the word is complete. – No decision on the morphological interpretation is made in CLL:259, but both an abl./instr. and a nom./acc. pl. n. + reflexive -ti are seen as possible. Sasseville 2021a:327-329 suggests a 2sg. imp. act. of wari(ya)- + refl. -ti. The first analysis as abl./inst. is preferred here for reasons expounded upon under Meaning.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The form is regarded as belonging to the paradigm of the 3sg. pres. act. warīti by Laroche (DLL:107), Weitenberg 1984a:290 and Sasseville 2021a:327-329 (2sg. impv. act. + refl. -ti). Two interpretations of wāriyati ḫapanuša (i 30’) were suggested by the latter two. Weitenberg translates it as “er/man verlangt die Trinkhörner (?)” supposing that ḫapanuša is a neuter accusative form ending in the particle -ša, which makes no sense in the context. Sasseville proposes to render wāriyati ḫapanuša as ‘call for yourself (scil. the drinking horn and) rinse (it)!’ implying as direct object the drinking horn, which the speaker is holding out to the addressee already, is also not convincing. Instead, following an idea of Yakubovich 2017d wariyati is best interpreted as an abl./instr. of wāri(ya)- ‘related to water, watery, water’ derived from wār- ‘water’. Syntactically, it depends on the next word, the verb ḫapanuša, which is translated as ‘sprinkle!’ by Yakubovich and as ‘rinse (it)!’ by Sasseville 2021a:491.

A slightly modified translation is suggested here, combining the two translations: ‘Rinse it with water!’ After the people of Lallupiya use the horn for drinking winiyandan ‘the wine-related (drink or deity)’ (ibid. iii 17’), it has to be rinsed with water (wetenaz arḫa šanḫanzi, ibid. iii 21’) and the water should be poured at some distance from the ḫuwaši-stone (ibid. iii 22’f.). Following this general instruction, the situation is described in more detail: The leaders of Lallupiya make music, and the cup-bearer proceeds to perform his task of cleaning the drinking horn. He holds it towards the leaders, and they tell him: ‘Rinse (it) with water!’ The sentence is the Luwian address by the leaders of Lallupiya towards the cub-bearer to perform his role.

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Although only the abl./instr. form is attested, the relational suffix -i(ya)- points to a mutated stem.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. wār-.