madduwi(ya)-

Hapax in a Luwian ritual in LNS.

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nom. pl. c.

ma-˹ad˺-[du-ú]-in-zi

KUB 9.6 i 24

(CTH 759, LNS)

Attestation following CLL:145, checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz.

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Despite the cautious translation of Tischler 2008a:115 (‘von/mit maddu-Getränk’), Tischler 2016a:217, there is a widespread agreement that madduwi(ya)- means ‘of wine’ (CLL:145; HED M:100). This is based not only on the assonance with CLuw. maddu- ‘wine’ (see s.v.), but, as CLL:144f. emphasized, also on the description of the ritual, which in line 6 of the same text lists the ingredients of the mixture as GEŠTIN LÀL Ì.GIŠ ‘wine, honey, oil’, which in turn corresponds to the phrase of the recitation “ma-˹ad˺-[du-ú]-in-zi ma-al-li-ti-in-zi da-a-i-ni-in-zi” ‘of m., of honey, of oil’. Though also Starke 1990a:191 himself pointed out this parallelism, he preferred to interpret this word as maddu(i)- ‘lieblich’ (followed by Haas 2003a:106). Finally, Ünal 2016a:963 (who does not distinguish it from maddu- ‘wine’) translates it as “sweet wine”, although this is clearly an adjective and there is no hint for being sweet (see the discussion under CLuw. maddu- ‘wine’).

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