ḫuyellā(i)-^(mi)

The verb is a hapax, attested in the Kumarbi myth (NS).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The general context was first elucidated by Forrer 1936a:692-694. The text runs as follows: ⸢^D⸣ku-mar-bi-ia ki-iš-ša-ra-⸢az⸣-za-ši-ta-aš-⸢ta⸣ ar-ḫa ḫu-i-el-la-a-it na-aš píd-da-a-iš ^Da-nu-uš “he escaped from Kumarbi’s hand and he flew, the (god) Anu” (KUB 33.120 i 22f.). Due to a misreading of ki-iš-ša-ra-⸢az⸣-za-ši-ta-aš-⸢ta⸣ as ki-iš-ša-ra-az za-ši-ta-nu^?-it, Forrer analyzed the single sentence as two sentences, translating the apparent verb za-ši-ta-nu^?-it with ‘entwand^?? sich’ and ar-ḫa ḫu-i-el-la-a-it with ‘enteilte’. Both translations are still found in the literature (the former in HEG A-K:259: ‘entschlüpfen’ and ‘sich herauswinden’, CLL:82 ‘winding, twisting (?)’, Eichner 1980a:147, Oettinger 1984a:46 ‘entschlüpfen’, HHw:s.v. ‘entschlüpfen, entweichen’, Ünal 2007a:218 ‘to break lose, escape, slip away’, HW:70 and HW 2nd ed.:629 ‘entschlüpfen(?), sich entwinden(?)’; the latter in Čop 1964a:44 ‘to flee’, HED H:330 ‘flew forth’[?]).

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Within Hittite, the verb obviously belongs to the denominatives in -ā(i)-^(mi). While most scholars regard -ll- as the root final consonant, it is submitted here (following Čop 1964a:44 and Oettinger 1984a:46) that the verbal suffix is attached to a noun in -alla/i- derived (with or without an intermediate step *ḫuia- ‘running’) from the verb ḫuiya-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to walk, run’. Accordingly, the syllable -iya- must have lost its -a- due to the well-known Luwian contraction of -iya- > -i- (see under Origin; differently, Oettinger 1984a:46 assumes an umlaut effect -iya- > -ie-, which is unnecessary, if one regards the word as Luwian).

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Contrary to ḫuyellar(i)- c., the word is not listed as Luwian in the dictionaries or the respective lists (except in Melchert 2005a:449, but with question mark). However, the existence of a common base *ḫuyella/i- of ḫuyellar(i)- and ḫuyellā(i)-^(mi) with its very specific spelling is indicative of a common origin. That this is Luwian emerges from the combination of the gloss wedge marking with the use of the suffix -alla/i- and the occurrence of the typical syncope (see Melchert 1994a:276; outdated Otten 1950a:34.)

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For the lemma head, see CLuw. ḫuiya-⁽ⁱ⁾.