antarwīl(i)-
‘something in lower position (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 2505
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
antarwīl(i)-
‘something in lower position (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of this lexeme occurs in the song incipit from a NS fragment of the Ištanuwa festival.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. n. | ⸢an⸣-tar-ú-i-il | KBo 32.3 obv. 5’ | (CTH 773, NS) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The fragmentary context does not provide any information that could help to elucidate the meaning of antarwīl(i)-. An educated guess regarding its derivational history would start from *an-tra- ‘lower’ (cf. Lyd. ẽntarfλo-), which regularly developed into *antar- and was further derived with the polar suffix -wa(/i)-. Finally, the resulting *antarwa(/i)- underwent another suffixation with -il(i)-; cf. Hitt. ešḫarwil- ‘something of blood-red color’ for a parallel. In analogy with the Hittite formation, antarwīl(i)- should be ‘something in lower position’. However, it must be emphasized that the above analysis remains contextually unsupported and, therefore, very tentative.
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1.1.5Stem
For the derivational chain posited here, see under Meaning.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. anne.