ḫūwalm(i)-
‘wool strands (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2850
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
ḫūwalm(i)-
‘wool strands (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The only occurrence of the lexeme comes from a ritual passage following the myth of the neglected deified “illness of the head and eyes” (MS).
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. pl. | ḫu-u-wa-al-mi-in-za | KUB 35.107 iii 22’ | (CTH 764, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
DLL:49, CLL:79, and HHw:57 only note the existence of the word, but do not offer a translation. The only proposal so far comes from Burgin (apud Steitler 2017a:392f.), who thinks of ‘wool’, relating the word to CLuw. *ḫulan(i)- (síg-la-ni-iš). The context is certainly suggestive, for a substitute head is fashioned from a vessel by way of attaching several items or incisions to imitate the parts of the head. The ḫuwalminza are used to represent the individual strands of hair ([tapp]aninza). The plural form indicates that the word refers to individual strands of wool, instead of the substance.
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1.1.5Stem
The default analysis of a word ending in -inza is that of a mutating stem, which, on account of its phonological structure, has to be segmented as a root ḫūwal- plus a suffix -m(i)- (< *-mo-).
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