/walliyawant(i)-/
‘equipped with elevation (?)’
- Language
- Common Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2582
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/walliyawant(i)-/, wa/i-li-ia-wa/i-ti-
‘equipped with elevation (?)’1.1.1Transmission
Attested just once, this hapax legomenon occurs in one inscription from Tabal, dating to between 750 and 740 BCE.
[AH.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | /walliyawantin/ | wa/i-li?-ia-wa/i-ti-na | KULULU 4, §9 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme depends heavily on whether it belongs to the word family around /walliya-(ti)/ ‘to rise’ or not. While its spelling can be thus interpreted, it does lack the logogram BONUS (sign *165) usually so characteristic for words from this family, and in addition to that, its meaning (see discussion below) is far from clear. Therefore, its link with the word family around /walliya-(ti)/ ‘to rise’ is not assured. Alternative possible interpretations for the attested spelling are /waliyawant(i)-/, /wariyawant(i)-/, or indeed even /wal/riyawatt(i)-/ with an underlying morphology that would be altogether different. However, evidence from Luwian walliyawand(i)- in Hittite Transmission renders the present interpretation the best choice for the moment.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘eager (?)’
The meaning of this lexeme is assigned only tentatively, because it occurs in a passage in KULULU 4, §9 that is, mostly due to its syntax, difficult to interpret: wa/i-mu-ta DEUS-ni-zi-i (LITUUS)á-za-mi-na COR-ni-na a-ta tu-wa/i-mi-na-a la-ta wa/i-li?-ia-wa/i-ti-na, probably /wa=mu=tta massaninzi azzammin attanin anta tuwamina lanta walliyawantin/, which may mean ‘For me, the gods took my beloved soul to be put in (as?) walliyawant(i)-’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:445). From a morphological point of view, the lexeme would be expected to denote ‘equipped with rising / elevation (= praise)’ vel sim. (Maier 2013a:231f.), but this cannot be proven on the basis of the existing data.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The lexeme appears to be a formation in /-want(i)-/, thus tentatively suggested by Hawkins 2000a:447 and likewise cautiously followed by Maier 2013a:231f. While not plentiful, such formations do exist, as proved by at least a dozen lexemes in /-want(i)-/ in CLuw. and approximately half as many in the HLuw. corpus (cf. the CLuw. and HLuw. data in Maier 2013a:202-232). The suffix is mostly likely denominal (thus Hawkins 2000a:447) and derived from /walliya-/ c.
[AH.B.]
1.2 Luwian in Hittite transmission
walliyawand(i)-
‘(unknown)’1.2.1Transmission
A word ending in (-)w]alliyawanda is attested once in a tiny NS fragment with unknown content.
[E.R.]
1.2.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | (-)w]a-al-li-ia-wa-an-da | KBo 51.237 iv? 2 | (CTH 832, NS) |
Trémouille 2009a:ix reads the acephalous word as a Luwian place name, probably as a stem form. The proposal of an appellative noun comes from Soysal 2016a:420f., which would be an inflected form.
[E.R.]
1.2.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.2.4Meaning
If the word should be complete as attested, the most attractive analysis is that of a possessive -want(i)- adjective derived from walliya- ‘exaltation’, i.e. ‘having exaltation’ (see Soysal 2016b:420f. The context is too fragmentary to confirm or disprove the hypothesis.
[E.R.]