parlašalla-

The lexeme is found only twice in two different fragments of purification rituals (both NS).

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The ^LÚparlašalla- is a functionary (CHD P:175, HHw:s.v., HEG P:484, Ünal 2007a:522) who plays a role in two parallel passages in purification rituals. The composed context runs as follows: ^(12’)egir-šú-ma-za en siskur a-na 2 dingir^MEŠ igi-an-da ma-tal-li-i[(a ^LÚpár-l)]a-⸢šal-la⸣ x[                    ar-ḫa] ^(13’)a-ni-ia-an-zi “But afterward, the parlašalla [(and)                        ] complete the ma(n)talliya-ritual toward the two deities (of/for) the ritual patron”  (KUB 46.38 ii 12’f. with dupl. KUB 46.42 ii 15’, building on CHD P:175). In the dictionary, attention is drawn to the co-occurrence in the same texts of the functionaries ^LÚigi-zi-aš-ši-iš (KUB 46.38 ii 9) and ^LÚigi-zi-šal-la (KUB 46.42 iii 14’, iv 12’), and the structure of the last compared with that of ^LÚparlašalla-. In the light of the interpretation of parla/i- as ‘front, foremost’, it is not unlikely that the two lexemes *^LÚḫantezziyaššiš and the *^LÚḫantezzi(ya)šalla- constitute two attempts to calque the Luwian word. The latter can be analyzed as parla/i- ‘front, foremost (?)’ plus -ašša/i- (genitival suffix, substantivized) plus -alla/i- (suffix for relational adjectives, developing into agent nouns or -alla-; see Sasseville 2014-2015a). Accordingly, *^LÚḫantezziyašši- is ḫantezziya- ‘front, foremost’ plus -ašša/i- (genitival suffix). Although *^LÚḫantezzišalla- shares the first two components (with syncope of ḫantezziya- > ḫantezzi-), it adds another suffix, viz. -alla/i- or -alla-, following the Luwian model. Thus, the resulting word is a hybrid of the two languages.

If the proposal made here is borne out by further data, the reading †^LÚšizišalla considered in CHD P:175 and CHD Š:508 is obsolete. In any case, a functionary̭’s name built by means of a compound with a second member šalli- is highly improbable given the a-stems of both ^LÚparlašalla- and ^LÚigi-zišalla-.

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On the stem formation, see under Meaning.

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The Luwian base parla/i- as well as the assumed suffixes -ašša/i- and -alla/i- (or -alla-) point strongly to a Luwian origin for the word, although this has not yet been suggested.

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