tarwai(ya)-
‘woody (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2790
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
tarwai(ya)-
‘woody (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in an incantation of the cult of Lallupiya.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | tar-wa-i-ia | KUB 35.132 ii 5’ | (CTH 771, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv)
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1.1.4Meaning
Nothing had been suggested in the dictionaries so far; cf. Laroche 1959a:94, CLL:219. Melchert (apud Sasseville 2021a:83) suggests an adjectival derivation in -ai(ya)- built on tāru- n. ‘wood’, which would lead to the translation of arūna tarwaiya as ‘wooded heights’. However attractive this may be, it must remain hypothetical due to the fragmentary state of the context.
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1.1.5Derivatives
1.1.5.1Uncertain Derivatives
For the lemma head see CLuw. tāru-.