/warpassalli(ya)-/, (ARMA)wa/i+ra/i-pa-sa-li-ia-

Attested once, this hapax legomenon can be found in an inscription from Maraş, which dates to around 800 BCE or later.

[AH.B.]

nom./acc. pl. n.

/warpassalliya/

(ARMA)wa/i+ra/i-pa-sa-li-ia-i

MARAŞ 14, §3 (Maraş)

The signs appear in a slightly different order on the inscription: <wa/i+ra/i-ARMA-pa-sa-li-ia^-i>.

[AH.B.]

With /warp(i)-/ newly interpreted as ‘weapon, tool’ (Yakubovich 2019a:582f.), the first suggested meaning for the phrase za-ia (ARMA)wa/i+ra/i-pa-sa-li-ia^-i DOMUS-na, i.e. /zaya warpassalliya parna/, as ‘these craft-houses’ vel sim. (Hawkins 2000a:266) is moot. Instead, an interpretation similar to wa/i+ra/i-pa-si DOMUS-na, /warpassi parna/ ‘house of weapons, i.e. armoury’, is to be sought. The morphological structure of /warpassalli(ya)-/ evidently links it to the abstract noun /warpassahid-/ ‘military career (?)’, both very likely going back to the imperfective verb /warpassa-⁽ⁱ⁾/, which might be attested in CLuw. (see under lemma), though not in HLuw.

[AH.B.]

The present lexeme is an adjective derived with the well-represented adjectival suffix /-i(ya)-/ and subject to i-mutation. For a derivational basis, the adjective might rely on /warpassalla-/, likely built with the suffix /-alla-/, which forms common gender agent nouns from verbs and does not undergo i-mutation (Sasseville 2014-2015a:120), or simply a substantivized formation in /-alla/i-/. In any case, it is probably based on the verb /warpassa-⁽ⁱ⁾/, which has so far gone unattested in HLuw. but can be found in CLuw. and shows the imperfective suffix /-ssa-⁽ⁱ⁾/ attached to a base verb /warp(a)-/ only attested in the shape of a participle /warpamma/i-/ ‘armed (?)’, cf. Melchert 2003b:195, 200, 205.

[AH.B.]

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