walippantalla/i-
‘intricate, intertwined’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2841
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
walippantalla/i-
‘intricate, intertwined’1.1.1Transmission
The sole attestation of the adjective is found in the MH translation of an Akkadian omen text.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | wa-li-ip-pa-an-da-al-[liš] | KUB 4.1 iv 31’ | (CTH 422, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the handcopy. – Restoration as nom. sg. c. with the narrow LIŠ sign because of limited space in the lacuna (contra Riemschneider 2004a:44: -[la?] and HEG W-Z:264 and CLL:251: -[li]). – The exceptional spelling with geminate -pp- (in contrast to -p- elsewhere) must be due to Hittite transmission (differently Melchert in CLL:251f., who posits walippa+ or walip(p)a+).
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word occurs in the context of an omen: ták-ku kam úr ká úr-an wa-li-ip-pa-an-da-al-[liš] ‘when a kidney (sign exists and) a body part as gate is intertwined with (another) body part’ (‘wenn ein Nieren(-Zeichen vorhanden ist und) ein Körperteil als Tor in einen (anderen) Körperteil verschlungen ist’ after HEG W-Z:264, based on Riemschneider 2004a:44, 278) Although úr-an is syntactically unclear, this reading seems preferable to the one provided in CLL:251, which interprets the AN sign as a determinative in a putative divine name DWalippandalli-. The adjective walippandal[liš] corresponds to kupušu (for Akk. kuppuṣū ‘curly’) in the Akkadian version (ibid. iv 30’), thus Tischler’s translation ‘verschlungen’.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
The use of the suffix -alla/i- indicates that the word is a mutated stem.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Origin
Tischler (HEG W-Z:264, following DLL:106) connects the lexeme with Luw. *walip- ‘to wrap, envelope’, which is plausible in view of the semantics of the Akkadian equivalent. Also the suffix -alla/i- points to a Luwian origin.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. *walip-.