tiwali-
‘(a garden plant)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2681
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
tiwali-
‘(a garden plant)’1.1.1Transmission
A clear attestation of the lexeme is found in a ritual or festival fragment from the Kizzuwatna tradition, another one, less certain, comes from a Hattian/Hittite text (both NS).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. sg. or stem form | ti-wa-liSAR | KBo 13.248 i 7’ | (CTH 500, NS) |
| GIŠti-i-w[a(-) | KUB 44.60 ii 12’ | (CTH 731, NS) |
Obviously, the assignment of GIŠti-i-w[a(-) at KUB 44.60 ii 12’ to the present lemma is not assured.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word marked with the determinative sar for plants occurs in a list of garden plants (see Berman 1972a:132, HEG T:395, Ünal 2007a:722). Very likely, the word belongs to the family around the plant name tiwariya- (HHw:178, HEG T:395).
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1.1.5Stem
Although for plant names like for other names it is difficult to ascertain an etymology, it is likely that the stem *tiwal(i)- reflected in Hitt. tiwali- provided also the base for tiwali(ya)-, especially in view of the extant plant name tiwariya-.
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1.1.6Derivatives
1.1.7Origin
In general, the scholars who treat the noun tiwali-SAR seem to regard it as a Hittite word, but for the reasons presented under Stem a Luwian origin recommends itself.
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For the lemma head see CLuw. *tiw-.