aruwãti(je)-

This lexeme is found in a grave inscription from Limyra as well as on the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

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Carruba 1979b:89 suggests restoring [aru]ẉãti in TL 26.23, which is possible but unprovable due to the fragmentary state of the context.

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The word aruwãti is found in a curse formula where it seems to serve as an epithet to the gods. Based on this information, Neumann 1978a:127 suggests the meaning ‘high, sublime’ connecting aru- with Hitt. and Luw. āru- ‘high’ (followed by DLL:5, Neumann 2012a:402, Gehrisch 2018a:186, Christiansen 2020a:231; cf. Carruba 1979b:89). Hajnal 1995a:178 takes it as an abstract noun instead, i.e. ‘heights’, which is less likely from a morphological perspective. Due to the joining of a new fragment to the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, another full attestation has become available, i.e. aruwãtija. While aruwãti was taken as a stem aruwãt(i)-, the new attestation demonstrates the presence of a stem in -i(je)-, which must have been derived from aruwãt(i)- ‘having heights (vel sim.)’. Since the nominative plural of aruwãt(i)- and aruwãti(je)- would look identical, it is not possible to attribute the word aruwãti entirely to either one of the two formations. Pending further evidence, it is treated here together with aruwãti(je)-. Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:142 interpret arawazija as an adjective modifying arawazija ‘monuments’, which is formally possible but not likely, considering that the sentence lists several types of constructions such as tezi ‘sarcophagus’, tukedri ‘statue’. Therefore, aruwãtija is better taken as a substantivized adjective meaning ‘high (building(s))’ (thus also Gehrisch 2018a:68).

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There are possibly two co-existing stems, i.e. aruwãt(i)- and aruwãti(je)-, to either of which the nom. pl. aruwãti can belong. The adjectival formation in -nt(i)- is expected to have been derived from a substantival base, i.e. *aruwa, which can be interpreted as a substantivized adjective in the neuter plural; cf. Hitt./Luw. āru- → āruwa (see also Pal. aru-/-aw-). Hajnal 1995a:178 makes a back-projection of the nt-formation assuming a hysterokinetic ablaut, in which the vocalized suffix would have yielded the a-vocalism. However, this is not convincing, because this formation in -nt(i)-, not attested anywhere else in Anatolian, is more likely to be late and derived directly from nom./acc. pl. n. *aruwa.

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1. aruwãtijese/i- (PN) (Neumann 1978a:127, DLL:5)

For the lemma head see Lyc. *eru-.