walut(i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2842
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
walut(i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested only twice in tiny fragments with mythological content probably belonging to the tradition of the Tauriša rituals (cf. Starke 1985a:248 and 252f.).
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | w]a-lu-ti-⸢in⸣ | KUB 35.128 ii 3’ | (CTH 765, MS) |
| wa-lu-ti-in[ | KUB 35.99, 7’ | (CTH 765, MS) |
Contra DLL:106, CLL:254 and HEG U-Z:274, wa-lu-u-ta (KUB 35.111 ii 4’) does not belong to this Lemma (see under CLuw. walū-).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The morphological analysis of wa-lu-ti-in[ at KUB 35.99, 7’ is not assured because the tablet breaks off immediately after -in, and it remains unclear whether the word really ends after -in.
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1.1.4Meaning
None of the dictionaries (DLL:106, CLL:254, HEG U-Z:274) makes an attempt to translate this noun. Only Carter 1962a:200 and Melchert (CLL:254) consider a derivational relationship with the vessel names DUGwalutašš(i)- and DUGwalutaššiyant-, but this does not lead to a semantic interpretation. If correct, their suggestion implies that walut(i)- is very probably a noun, from which a genitival adjective in -ašša/i- could be formed and subsequently substantivized.
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1.1.5Stem
The form in -in, if read correctly, belongs to a mutated stem, most likely an abstract noun in -t(i)- or even -ut(i)- (for the instrument suffix -ut(i)- found also in arut(i)- ‘wing’, see Melchert 2003a:188).
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1.1.6Derivatives
1.1.7Origin
No reconstruction is offered here, but cf. Sasseville 2021a:197 and the reconstruction under CLuw. *walip-.
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