aḫarriyala (or aḫurriyala)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 2536
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
aḫarriyala (or aḫurriyala)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The only occurrence of this word comes from a song incipit in the Ištanuwa ritual.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. or coll. | a-ḫa/ur-ri-ia-⸢la?⸣ | KBo 29.32 ii 6 | (CTH 773, MS) |
If the reading (see Starke 1985b:334) is correct, the analysis as a neuter nom./acc. pl. or collective is likely. However, in spite of HHw:11 (with an adjectival interpretation), an identification of the part of speech remains impossible, due to the fragmentary context.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The reading of the second sign is ambiguous between -har- and -ḫur-.
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1.1.4Meaning
The fragmentary context forestalls any attempt to assign a meaning to the word. Accordingly, no translation is offered in CLL:4, HHw:11 or Yakubovich 2017d.
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1.1.5Stem
Melchert (in CLL:4) derives the lexeme by the following chain: aḫa/urra- → adj. *aḫa/urri(ya)- → aḫa/urriyāl(i)-. In contrast, Schuol 1994a:290 posits a verb *aḫa/urriye/a- as the base of both aḫa/urriyant- and an instrument noun aḫa/urriyāl- n. All options should be left open.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. aḫa/urra-.