arpalli-(ti)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2259
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
arpalli-(ti)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word occurs once in a NS lexical list.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| part. nom. sg. c. | ar-pal-li-im-mi-[iš] | KBo 1.31 rev. 7’ | (CTH 302, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
Since the Sumerian and Akkadian columns are not preserved in rev. 7’, there is not contextual clue to the meaning. Any etymological considerations based on a putative root arp- ‘to be slanting, steep, awry, crooked, bent’ or the noun (
)arpa- ‘unrest’ would result in semantic interpretations too vague to be useful. Accordingly, hardly any translations are offered in the literature (Starke 1990a:258 n. 880, CLL:30, Ünal 2007a:59, Sasseville 2021a:140 n. 17). Only Tischler (in HHw:23) tentatively suggests ‘verwirrt (?)’.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
Starke´s (Starke 1990a:258 n. 880) plausible analysis of arpallimma/i- as the participle of a stem arpalli-(ti), a denominative verb built from the -alla/i- derivative of *arpa-, is followed in CLL:30, Sasseville 2021a:140 n. 17, as well as here (undecided HHw:23).
[E.R.]
1.1.6Origin
The word formation as described under Stem, i.e. with the suffixes -alla/i- (adjectival), -i- (verbal), and -mma/i- (participial), suggests a borrowing from Luwian (see also DLL:32, CLL:30, HHw:23).
[E.R.]
For the tentative lemma head see CLuw. *arp-.