wawalipa-(i)
‘to wrap, envelope’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2837
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
wawalipa-(i)
‘to wrap, envelope’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested exclusively in a single NS copy of the OH Ištanuwa festival.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. act. | wa-ú-wa-li-pa-ad-da | KUB 25.39 iv 6 | (CTH 773, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
As usual for the incipits of the Ištanuwian songs, there is little context to go on. At least, it is clear that the subject is maraḫšiwal(i)-wool and the verb form in question is combined with the preverb anda ‘in, into’, but the object naḫišra is an unknown entity. Based on this information, Laroche (DLL:105) plausibly suggests ‘envelopper (?)’ for the present verb, which is generally accepted (Meriggi 1980a:343, Starke 1990a:420, CLL:268, Frotscher 2012a:151, Dempsey 2015a:246, HEG W-Z:263). Dempsey 2015a:246 claims that the reduplication indicates here the iterative semantics inherent in the process of wrapping.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The ambiguous form wawalipatta allows to classify the verb as either an unlenited -a-(ti) factitive stem or a reduplicated root verb of the ḫi-conjugation. Reduplication tips the scales in favor of the latter.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see Luw. *walip-.