warpalla-

The lexeme has only recently been discovered in an oracle report from Kayalıpınar.

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Checked against the photographs of the Kayalıpınar excavation.

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The gloss wedge marked form warpalla is found twice in a description of mischief regarding the cult equipment. It is reported in direct speech: ^(66’)… a‑na ^GIŠgigir dingir‑lim‑wa wa‑ar‑pa‑al‑la ^(67’)iš‑tu an.bar gar.ra e‑eš‑ta nu‑wa wa‑ar‑pa‑al‑la ^(68’)ar‑ḫa ḫar‑ak‑ta “… For the wagon of the deity, there were iron‑plated warpalla-s, and the warpalla-s were ruined” (KpT 1.56 iii 66’f.). The editor, Miller 2019a:128f., 137, points out that the warpalla would be an iron-plated part of a wagon. In an attempt to concretize the meaning, Melchert (pers. comm.) suggests ‘weapon’ obviously thinking of a derivative of HLuw. /warp(i)-/ ‘weapon’ without a change of meaning and positing it as the base wa-ar-pa-al-liš ‘armed’ (according to him warpalli(ya)-, but see under Lemma warpalla/i-). If the assumed derivational history were correct, a specific type of weapon would make more sense, but alternatively, one could assume as the base word warp(i)- ‘enclosure, cover, lid’ and postulate a meaning ‘wagon body’, for which an attribute ‘iron-plated’ would be particularly apt (cf. also Soysal 2019a:178 on ^GIŠgigir madnanu / ^GIŠmayāltu). Therefore, the latter solution is preferred here (see Rieken 2022b).

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There cannot be any doubt that warpalla reflects an original adjective in -alla/i- but is substantivized to denote a concrete object (implicitly Miller 2019a:128f., 137 and Melchert pers. comm.).

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The combination of the gloss wedges and the -alla/i- suffix point clearly to a Luwian origin of the word.

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For the lemma head see warp(i)-.