ilināi(ya)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2534
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ilināi(ya)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
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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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | i-li-na-a-i-ia | KUB 32.18 iv 4’ | (CTH 752, MS) |
| KUB 32.18 iv 5’ | (CTH 752, MS) | ||
| ⸢i⸣-li-na-a-i-ia | KUB 32.18 iv 6’ | (CTH 752, MS) | |
| i-li-na-a-i-⸢ia⸣ | KUB 32.18 iv 7’ | (CTH 752, MS) | |
| i-li-⸢na⸣-a-i-ia | KUB 32.18 iv 8’ | (CTH 752, MS) | |
| [i]-⸢li-na-a-i⸣-[ia] | KUB 32.16, 1’ | (CTH 752, OS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
Kammenhuber 1959a:59f., 76 and Carruba 1970a:57f. thought of ilināiya as a Hattic exclamation of unknown meaning. On the other hand, Sasseville 2021a:370 analyzes it as a Luwian adjective in -ai(ya)- modifying tūwa, which is translated with ‘harvest’ (see CLuw. tūwa-). Without an etymological link, no semantics can be assigned.
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