warpalla/i-

The relevant passages appear in rituals of the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).

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nom. sg. c.	[wa?-ra?-pa?-al-l]i-iš	KUB 35.43 ii 36	(CTH 761, NS)
	[wa?-r]a?-⸢pa?⸣-a[l-li-iš]	KUB 32.12, 1’	(CTH 761, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The incantation of KUB 32.12, 1ff. is parallel to that of KUB 35.43 ii 36ff. The reading as noted follows Starke 1985b:85, 145, CLL:260 and Hutter 2019a:341-343, but is highly doubtful. Especially the alleged -pa^?- looks very different from the assured -pa- three lines later, and the discrepancy cannot be explained by the broken edge. Therefore, in addition to the phonological difference between a putative †[warapalla/i- and warpalla/i-, an assignment of the first to the lemma of the latter is impossible on account of what is left of the signs (contra the tentative claim in CLL:260, HHw:196, Hutter 2019a:341-343).

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The word must be an epithet of ^DTarḫunza, the Storm-god, but it is impossible to identify which one; contra Melchert in CLL:260 and Hutter 2019a:341-343.

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The preposed position of the epithet points to an adjective, which is compatible with the i-mutated suffix -alla/i-.

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The adjective is found only once, in the Hittite version of the trilingual hymn to Iškur-Adad.

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nom. sg. c.	wa-ar-pa-al-liš	KUB 4.4 i 13’	(CTH 314, NS)
unknown	wa-ar-pal-l[a-	KUB 21.36, 6’	(CTH 209, NS)

A dat./loc. sg. warpallai as restored for KUB 21.36, 6’ in HEGU-Z:347 would be unexpected, likewise a sentence initial verb warpallā(i)- ‘to make superior’ as posited in Ünal 2007a:789. – On the alleged †warapalla/i- adduced in CLL:260, see under Lemma.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The Akkadian phrase lugal ga-aš-ru ‘strong/mighty king’ is rendered in the Hittite version with warpalliš lugal, hence the translations ‘strong, mighty, predominant, powerful, great’ vel sim. since Ehelolf 1927a:160 (see HW:246, van Brock 1962a:117,Laroche 1964a:72, Weitenberg 1977a:48, Starke 1990a:224, CLL:260, Ünal 2007a:790, HHw:196, EDHIL:967, Hutter 2019a:343f., 353). The etymological connection with HLuw. /warp(i)-/, translated as ‘virtue, courage, skill’ until recently (see under Lemma) is obvious, but Yakubovich 2019aplausibly claims that the word denotes ‘weapon, tool’, which leads to a translation ‘armed’ (Melchert pers. comm.) and is followed here.

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An adjective in -alla/i-, i-mutated warpalla/i- is derived from /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon, tool’ (implicitly Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1986a:76; see also under Meaning).Outdated Sturtevant 1934a:267 and Kronasser 1966a:212.

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Not only the Luwian base /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon, tool’, but also the match with HLuw. /warpalla/i-/ containing the productive Luwian suffix -alla/i- indicate that the word is borrowed into Hittite. This is explicitly stated in Starke 1990a:224, CLL:260, EDHIL:967, and HHw:196.

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For the lemma head see Luw. /warp(i)-/.