iwarwalla/i-
‘related to the share/dowry’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2611
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
iwarwalla/i-
‘related to the share/dowry’1.1.1Transmission
The word occurs only once in a MS land deed of king Arnuwanda I.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | ⸢i⸣-wa-ar-wa-al-li-i-⸢e⸣-[eš] | KBo 5.7 obv. 25 | (CTH 222, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The land deed KBo 5.7 lists among other persons and functionaries 4 sag.du iwarwalliyē[š] “4 iwarwalli- persons.” Already Riemschneider 1958a:345 n. 97 identified iwarwalliyēš as a derivative of iwaru- ‘share, dowry’, although he still thought the suffix to be relational -alla- (now regarded as the Hittitized form of Luw. -alla/i-), instead of -alla/i- itself. The analysis and/or the inferred translation ‘(person) related to the share/dowry’ vel sim. was repeated in principle by Weitenberg 1984a:252f., HEG A-K:455f., HED A, E, I: 502f., Ünal 2007a:288, HW 2nd ed. I:314, Rüster & Wilhelm 2012a:243.
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1.1.5Stem
The Hittite form in -iyēš points unambiguously to an i-stem and consequently to the Luwian suffix -alla/i-, which is attached to the u-stem base iwaru- (see under Meaning).
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1.1.6Origin
The word has been implicitly classified as Hittite so far (for references, see under Meaning). However, since the acknowledged base iwaru- is now attested also for Luwian (see under Lemma) just like the suffix -alla/i-, the default assumption is that the entire word originates in Luwian and is borrowed into Hittite.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. iwaru-.