imralla/i-
‘of the open country’
- Language
- Common Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2065
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
imralla/i-
‘of the open country’1.1.1Transmission
Hapax in a Luwian ritual fragment (NS).
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1.1.2Forms
| unknown | im-ra-˹al˺[- | KUB 35.129, 4’ | (CTH 770, NS) |
The attestation follows CLL:89 (cf. already Laroche 1959a:51), checked against the photograph of the Mainzer Fotoarchiv (the question mark of Starke 1985b:414 regarding the third sign is not necessary). The tiny and extremely fragmentary context does not provide any support for the restoration of the word by Laroche (followed by CLL:89), but it is formally possible and supported by the lexicalised form in the toponym URUImralla [del Monte & Tischler 1978a and del Monte 1992a s.v., cf. Laroche 1957a:22f., Laroche 1959a:51 and CLL:89], to which Melchert [pers. comm.] added the theonym DImralli [van Gessel 1998a:187].
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1.1.3Meaning ‘of the open country’
There is a general and justified agreement on the meaning of this word due to its transparent morphology (Laroche 1959a:51; CLL:89, similarly Tischler 2008a:68, Tischler 2016a:124 [‘rural’, with question mark]; not included in Ünal 2016a).
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