/walilid-/, (TERRA+LA+LA)wa/i-li-li-tà-
‘territory’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 2494
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/walilid-/, (TERRA+LA+LA)wa/i-li-li-tà-
‘territory’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme occurs eight times in the HLuw. corpus, mostly in inscriptions from Cilicia, but also in Karkamiš and Tabal. The relevant inscriptions date to between the late 10th and the early 7th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. | /wali(li)=za/ | (TERRA+LA+LA)wá/í+ra/i-za | KARATEPE 1 Ho., §5 (Cilicia) |
| (“TERRA+X”)wá/í+ra/i-za | KARATEPE 1 Hu., §5 (Cilicia) | ||
| TERRA+LA+LA-za | ÇINEKÖY, §2 (Cilicia) | ||
| KARATEPE 1 Hu., §37 (Cilicia) | |||
| dat./loc. sg. | /walidi/ | (“TERRA+LA+LA〈”〉)wa/i+ra/i-ri+i | KARATEPE 1 Ho., §12 (Cilicia) |
| abl./instr. | /walilidadi/ | (TERRA+LA+LA)wa/i-li-ri+i-tà-ti | ANDAVAL, §3 (Tabal) |
| dat./loc. pl. | /walilidanz/ | (TERRA+LA+LA)wa/i-li-li-tà-za | KARKAMIŠ A11b+c, §8 (Karkamiš) |
| TERRA+LA+LA-tà-za | KARKAMIŠ A25a, §2 (Karkamiš) |
Unusually, the occurrence in KARATEPE 1 Ho., §12 does not lexically match the Hu. version of the same text, which instead shows 〈(TERRA)ta-sà-kwa/i+ra/i〉, i.e. /taskwari/ ‘land’, cf. the remarks by Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1978a:106.Bossert 1949a:102f. also noted the divergence in his edition of the bilingual inscription, but could not yet determine that the two HLuw. versions of the text employed different lexemes in §12.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this word is reasonably clear, at least where its longest attested stem is concerned, which is similar to its Hittite cognate ulili- ‘green, plant growth’ (Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1986a:73), and more distantly related to Hittite wellu- ‘meadow’ (Yakubovich 2013a:88).Melchert (pers. comm.) tentatively proposes, on the basis of the Hittite evidence, an unattested CLuw. origin for it: */ulilid-/ ‘greensward’ vel sim. Somewhat unusually for a word attested only a relatively limited number of times in the corpus, its spelling appears to expose considerable allomorphy especially concerning the length of the stem, perhaps due to haplology, although it is also possible that the spelling simply attests to a host of abbreviated spellings mostly due to haplography (Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1978a:106). Thus, the spelling seen at KARATEPE 1 Ho., §5, i.e. 〈(TERRA+LA+LA)wá/í+ra/i-za〉, may need to be re-transliterated as 〈(TERRA+LA+LA)WÁ/Í+ra/i-za〉 vel sim. The matter cannot be resolved at present for a lack of exact cognates in the other Anatolian languages using different writing systems.
The variation between /l/ and /r/ and, in some instances, /d/ was remarked on by Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1978a:106, who considered assimilation and dissimilation as possible causes, but this has since been re-identified as rhotacism affecting both intervocalic /l/ and /d/, cf. e.g. Melchert 2003b:179-182.
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1.1.4Meaning
The general drift of the meaning has long been clear (cf. Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1986a:73), because the word appears in the Karatepe bilingual inscription and translates Phoenician ʿmq ‘plain’ in two places, but in KARATEPE 1 Ho., §12, which differs from the Hu. version in the choice of words, /walilid-/ is used for a different Phoenician word, viz. ʾrṣ ‘earth, land’. In his first discussion of the word, Bossert 1948a:182 suggested ‘land’ or ‘plain’, later Hawkins 2000a:103 opted for ‘field’ in one case, but a more general and topographically neutral denotation such as ‘territory’ (thus Yakubovich 2017e:s.v.) seems a better option to cover the different uses of the word, which are discussed by Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1986a:73.
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1.1.5Stem
The attested inflection shows the word to be a neuter gender. Originally likely a consonantal stem in /-id-/, the nom./acc. sg. 〈(TERRA+LA+LA)wá/í+ra/i-za〉 seems to have been recharacterized as an a-stem, taking the usual /-n/ ending partially obscured by the addition of the neuter particle /=sa, =za/. The attested spelling variations appear to depict a number of stem variants, but it remains unclear how much of that is due to choosing between several orthographic abbreviations or actual stem allomorphy, cf. Hawkins & Morpurgo Davies 1986a:73f.
Yakubovich 2013a:88 notes that the lexeme occurs in a number of personal names from the Hittite era.
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For the reconstruction, see Pal. ulātar/n-.