walli-(ti)
‘to raise, lift’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2580
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
walli-(ti)
‘to raise, lift’1.1.1Transmission
The attestations of the present verb are limited to rituals for the pregnant woman and for the sick child (from MS texts to NS copies).
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | wa-al-li-it-ta | KUB 35.88 iii 13’ | (CTH 766, NS) |
| [wa-al-li-it-t]a | KUB 35.89, 12’ | (CTH 766, MS) | |
| 3pl. impv. ind. act. | wa-al-l[i-in-du] | KUB 35.102 rev. 4 | (CTH 766, NS) |
| wa-al-li-in-du | KUB 35.103 iii 4 | (CTH 766, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Restoration at KUB 35.89, 12’ after duplicate KUB 35.88 iii 13’ (following Starke 1985b:228).
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning ‘to raise, lift’ was first suggested by Meriggi 1957a:199f. incl. n. 18 based on the context of KUB 35.103 iii 4 about the situation immediately after the birth of the child: -(4)za-am-pa-ku-wa dumu-ni-in wa-al-li-in-du (5)ša-an-na-i-in-du pa-wa-an-tar a-an-ni (6)⸢ti⸣-i-ta-ni du-ú-wa-an-du “They shall lift and š. the child, and place it at the mother’s breast.” The interpretation is corroborated by the combination of walli- with the preverb šarri ‘up’ and the particle =tar (used like Hitt. =ššan). Further confirmation came from the comparison with Hitt. wal(l)a-/-i(ya)-(ḫi) ‘to elevate, praise’ (Laroche 1958b:178), and later from HLuw. /walliya-/ ‘to rise’. As pointed out by Oettinger 1979a:490 n. 83, the semantic change from ‘to raise’ to ‘to praise’ is paralleled in šarlā(i)-(mi) ‘to exalt by praise, to offer in sacrifice’, which derives from šarla/i- ‘high’ (most recently Sasseville 2021a:229f.). The translation as given has entered the handbooks: DLL:105, HW:427 (‘aufrichten’), Starke 1990a:551, CLL:252, Lehrman 1998a:167, HEG U-Z:235, Sasseville 2021a:138.
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1.1.5Stem
The attested forms of the verb provide clear evidence for its assignment to the class of deradical -i- verbs with unlenited endings (Starke 1990a:551, Sasseville 2021a:138).
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1.1.6Derivatives
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘to raise, lift’
The Luwian verb walli-(ti) ‘to raise’ can be reconstructed as a root verb in *-i̯é/ó- derived from a root ending in a laryngeal (mostly likely *h1, see PAnat. *u̯ólh1-/u̯lh1-´ and cf. Kimball 1999a:349, 421), i.e. *u̯l̥h1-i̯é/ó- ‘to raise, lift’. A cognate of this pre-form is perhaps also found in Lyd. fa-ši-wλi-, which would support its reconstruction at least for Proto-Luwic, whereas Hittite only seem to have the stem in -ā-/-i(ya)-(ḫi); see PAnat. *u̯ólh1-/u̯lh1-´. There is also a u-extended stem found in Hitt. wal(l)u-(MP) ‘to praise (?)’ and walluške/a-(mi) ‘to praise’ and perhaps also in Luwian; see CLuw. wal(l)u-. Overall, a root *u̯elh1- with the semantics of ‘raising, lifting, praising’ can be established for Proto-Anatolian. Differently, Melchert 1994a:81 reconstructs n-formations, in order to account for the geminate in the Hittite root wall-, which has not found external support. No reconstruction is offered by Kloekhorst (EDHIL:952); cf. CLuw. *wall- ‘to be strong/active’.
[D.S.]
uwalla