wanalliške/a-^(mi)

The only secure attestation is found in the MS instruction of Arnuwanda I for the Mayor.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Two more duplicate attestations of the verb (part. nom./acc. sg. n. wanallan) are cited in HEG U-Z:279 (after CHD P:397, with references). However, they cannot be confirmed by collation. While at KUB 31.86 ii 16’ the reading ⸢wa-na⸣-al-la-a[n] is absolutely excluded (see also Miller 2013a:222f. and 378 n. 365), the beginning of the word at the duplicate KUB 31.89 ii 6’ is broken off.

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The context of wanalliške/a-^(mi) deals with the maintenance and repair of water pools: ^(11’)⸢nam-ma⸣ ku-i-e-eš ku-i-e-eš ku-e-lu-wa-né-eš še-er é.x[    ] ^(12’)⸢ku⸣-i-e-eš nam-ma ku-i-e-eš ku-⸢wa⸣-pí nu-uš ḫu-u-ma-an-du-[uš] ^(13’)wa-na-al-li-iš-kán-du iš-tal-ki-iš-kán-d[u] “Moreover, whatever water pools are up (by) the [...]-building, and further, whichever ones are anywhere else, they must wanalliške/a- them and smooth them” (modifying Miller 2013a:193f.). While CHD L-N:388 and HED A, E, I:451 do not attempt a translation of wanalliške/a-^(mi), Košak 1993a:111 notes that the verb should have a meaning similar to that of the following juxtaposed verbs ištalk-^(mi), ištalkiye/a-^(mi), ištalgā(i)-^(mi) ‘to flatten, smooth’. The interpretation is concretized by Tischler (HHw:s.v.) glossing the verb with ‘abkratzen, (lockeres Mauerwerk) ablösen’ (likewise HEG U-Z:279f., followed in Miller 2013a:193f. ‘to scrape all out’) and Ünal 2007a:784, who renders it as ‘to dub, stabilize, to pave with stones’. Since the text gives instructions about the maintenance and repair of the infrastructure at Ḫattuša, not about building new structures, ‘to scrape out’ seems to be superior to ‘to dub, stabilize, to pave with stones’. Moreover, it would allow a connection with uwaniya- ‘carving, cave, mine’ (see under Stem).

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The imperfective -ške/a- verb is derived from wanalliye/a-, itself a denominative verb built on a stem in -alla/i-. Since denominatives represent the overwhelming majority among the -alla/i- adjectives and nouns, its base is presumably a mutated noun *wana/i- or non-mutated *wana- c.; cf. Lyd. wãna-.

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The lexeme has not been recognized as a borrowing from Luwian so far, but the root shape wan- (with the loss of velar occlusion) and the -alla/i- suffix speak decidedly for a Luwian origin.

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