/lala-⁽ⁱ⁾/

This lexeme is attested four times in the HLuw. corpus. It occurs in inscriptions from the Commagene, Tabal, and Maraş, dating to between the late 9^th and late 8^th centuries BCE, as well as a much older inscription from the Konya plain, dating to the late 13^th century BCE.

[AH.B.]

This lexeme offers a transparent combination of logographic determinatives and fully syllabic spelling of the word. Because the word belongs to the well-attested word family around /la-/ ‘to take’, the phonological interpretation can be regarded as certain, and reduplications are not infrequent in the verbal domain either in HLuw. or in Anatolian in general, see Dempsey 2015a:331f. Use of the logogram *69 for a determinative in ANCOZ 10, §1 remains unexplained, except for the fact that the shape of the sign loosely resembles that of CAPERE (sign *41).

[AH.B.]

The meaning for the CLuw. cognates of this verb as well as its derivational base /la-/ was assigned by Laroche 1958a:104 and quickly proved just as suitable for HLuw. Laroche suggested that the reduplication visible in /lala-/ might add an iterative or distributive sense (the latter is followed e.g. by Sasseville 2021a:348-350). However, on the basis of its four attestations, this interpretation cannot be proven for /lala-/, as also noted by Dempsey 2015a:225. Three attestations occur in partially or mostly broken contexts, and only the occurrence in the letter recorded at KIRŞEHİR lead strip, §10 provides a mostly preserved context: wa/i-ta á-mu-u-ha wa/i+ra/i-mi-i COR-tara/i-sa INFRA-ta la-la-ha-i, i.e. /wa=a(n)=tta ammu=ha warmi^? atris zanta lalahha/, which may mean ‘Also I myself took him down for/from^? warm(i)-’ (cf. Akdoğan & Hawkins 2010a:7, 10). Yet it, too, remains ill-understood not least due to the unknown word /warm(i)-^?/, and the clause may in fact feature an idiomatic expression, whose meaning has so far eluded scholars.

[AH.B.]

The verb is a reduplication of the root verb /la-/ ‘to take’, which was already noticed by Forrer 1922a:221f. Like its derivational base, it inflects according to the ḫi-conjugation (Sasseville 2021a:348-350).

[AH.B.]

1. /lalamma-/

This lexeme is attested in various ritual texts.

[O.B.]

The form 〈[l]a-la-a-at-t[a]〉 on KUB 35.13, 19’ is included in CLL:121 as belonging to this verb. However, as shown by the duplicate KBo 29.6, the form is actually 〈a-la-la-a-at-ta〉 and is thus not included here (Sasseville 2021a:559-661).

[O.B.]

All forms have been checked against the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

Note the unexpected singleton consonant -t- in the ending of 〈la-a-la-ta〉 on KUB 35.128, probably to be amended to 〈la-a-la-<at>-ta〉 on account of all other attestations of the 3sg. pret. act. with a geminated -tt- (not amended as such in Starke 1985b:253).

[O.B.]

The meaning of CLuw. lālā-⁽ⁱ⁾ as ‘to take’ is largely consensual since the treatment of Laroche 1958a:101-104 (thus also in Laroche 1959a:61, Carruba 1968a:14, Oettinger 1979a:381, Starke 1980a:146, Morpurgo Davies 1982-1983a:263, Starke 1990a:269, CLL:121, HEG T/D:6, Jasanoff 2003a:5, EDHIL:804, Frotscher 2012a:180, Dempsey 2015a:219-225, Sasseville 2021a:348). See the base lemma Luw. lā-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to take’ for a more comprehensive semantic assignment. One semantic feature which distinguishes the reduplicated stem from the base verb is distributivity (Dempsey 2015a:219-225, Sasseville 2021a:350). Dempsey 2015a:224 furthermore suggests an additional habitual function. Already Forrer 1922a:222 called the formation “intensive”.

[O.B.]

CLuw. lālā-⁽ⁱ⁾ is a ḫi-conjugating verb, as evidenced by the 3sg. pres. act. form lalāi. The verb is formed by reduplication to the base lā-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to take’.

[O.B.]

1. lalam(i)-

2. lālašḫā-

3. lalašḫa-^(ti)

4. lalatta-

This Luwian lexeme is attested within a Hittite cult inventory text.

[O.B.]

The form has been checked against the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

[O.B.]

See the corresponding Cuneiform Luwian lemma and Francia 2016a.

[O.B.]

See the corresponding Cuneiform Luwian lemma.

[O.B.]

The Luwian provenance of this form is confirmed by the Luwian infinitive suffix -una (cf. CHD L-N:25, CLL:121, Dempsey 2015a:224f, Francia 2016a:4, Sasseville 2021a:349.). The text in which it is attested contains several other Luwian words, many of which occur with a Glossenkeil.

[O.B.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. lā-⁽ⁱ⁾.