tuwawantil(i)-

This lexeme is found in the song of growth performed at the end of the ritual for the disappearing deity involving the Palaic pantheon. For its attribution to the Luwian language (it was previously thought to be either Palaic or Hattic), see Sasseville 2021a:368-371.

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adv.	[tu-wa-waa-a]n-⸢te-li⸣	KUB 32.16 iv 1’	(CTH 752, OS)
	tu-wa-waa-an-te-li	KUB 32.18 iv 4’	(CTH 752, MS)
		KUB 32.18 iv 5’	(CTH 752, MS)
		KUB 32.18 iv 6’	(CTH 752, MS)
		KUB 32.18 iv 7’	(CTH 752, MS)
		KUB 32.18 iv 8’	(CTH 752, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv). We consider the use of the sign 〈te〉 instead of 〈ti〉 here to be irrelevant vis-à-vis the Luwian language. Likewise, the use of the ligature sign 〈wa_a〉 common to the Hurrian, Hattian and Palaic language, is not considered to be problematic for a Luwian word attested in Palaic transmission; see Sasseville 2021a:368f.

[D.S.]

Whereas Kammenhuber 1959a:59f., 89 and Carruba 1970a:75f. thought of tūwa as a Hattic exclamation of unknown meaning, it is suggested here instead that tuwawanteli is a derivative of the word Luwian tūwa- ‘crops, harvest, fruits (?)’ occurring within the same context (for which see Sasseville 2021a:370). We posit a derivative in -want(i)- ‘having harvest’ followed by an adverbial suffix -il(i)-, i.e. ‘(adv.) in the manner of one having harvest’.

[D.S.]

For a morphological analysis of the word, see under Meaning.

[D.S.]

For the derivational base see CLuw. tūwa-.