ēr(ḫū)walli(ya)-
‘internal’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2355
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ēr(ḫū)walli(ya)-
‘internal’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found mostly in ritual fragments of the Kuwattalla tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. n. | e-er-wa-al-⸢li⸣-ia-an | KUB 32.14, 10’ | (CTH 761, NS) |
| e-er-ḫu-u-wa-⸢al⸣-li-ia-an | KUB 35.43 iii 29’’ | (CTH 761, NS) | |
| ir-wa!-al-li-i[a-an] | KBo 21.12, 13’ | (CTH 767, NS) | |
| [e-e]r-ḫu-wa-al-l[i-ia-an] | KUB 35.20 obv. 12’ | (CTH 761, MS) | |
| ⸢e⸣-er-ḫu-wa-⸢al-li⸣-[ia-an] | KBo 29.15, 5’ | (CTH 760, NS) | |
| [e-er-ḫu-u-wa-al-l]i-ia-an | KUB 60.36, 9’ | (CTH 762, NS) | |
| abl./instr. | ir-wa-li-ia-ti | KUB 35.48 iii 7’ | (CTH 760, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Based on parallel contexts, Otten 1953a:104 recognized that ērḫuwalli(ya)- and ērwalli(ya)- are variants of the same word and already explained the difference with -ḫ(u)- as a “schwach artikulierten Laut”; for the phenomenon, cf. also Melchert 1994a:258.
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1.1.4Meaning
Together with parittarwalli(ya)-, CLuw. ir(ḫu)walli(ya)- forms a merism, which is part of list of merisms that aims to denote or describe the entirety of cases of tapāru, curse and perjury. The semantic interpretation of ēr(ḫu)wa- and its derivatives by Meriggi 1962c:259 (and Meriggi 1980a:283) and Carruba 1982a:45 (and Carruba 1982b:3) was based on etymological considerations, viz. on the identity of the first two sounds ēr-/ir- shared with Hitt. ērman- ‘illness’ (adopted in HHw:32, Hutter 2003a:262, but not in HEG A-K:369f., Starke 1990a:200, CLL:92; cf. also DLL:36f.: ‘sens inconnu’). Most recently, Mouton & Yakubovich 2019a:214-220 and 224-229 argued persuasively that the base of ēr(ḫū)walli(ya)-, viz. ēr(ḫu)wa- c., means ‘(the) interior’. Taking into account the subsequent adjectival derivatives and their substantivizations (see under Stem), they arrived at ‘internal’ as the plausible translation of ēr(ḫē)walli(ya)-. This is more than compatible with the derivational scenario drawn for its antonym parittarwalli(ya)- ‘external’ (see under Lemma) and therefore accepted here.Outdated Shevoroshkin 1964a:24 and Shevoroshkin 1964c:77.
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1.1.5Stem
The following chain of derivational processes can be assumed (following Melchert 1992b: 44 n. 7, CLL:92, and Mouton & Yakubovich 2019a:218): base *irḫ(i)- ‘border’ → *ir(ḫu)wa(/i)- ‘belonging to (the inside of the) border’ (polar -wa(/i)- suffix) → ēr(ḫu)wa- c. ‘(the) interior’ (non-mutating -a- suffix) → *ir(ḫu)walla/i- ‘related to the interior, internal’ (adjectival suffix -alla/i-) → *ir(ḫu)wall(i)- ‘(the) interior’ (substantivization) → ēr(ḫu)walli(ya)- ‘internal’ (adjectival suffix -i(ya)-).
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1.1.6Derivatives
For the lemma head see CLuw. *irḫ(i)-.