parzagulli(ya)-

The sole attestation of the lexeme is found in an inventory text.

[E.R.]

nom./acc. pl.

pár-za-gul-li-ia

KUB 12.1 iii 3’

(CTH 504, NS)

Outdated is Haas 1997a:341 (Hurrian essive); unclear the stance of Richter 2012a:302.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

Since the 1-nu-tum pár-za-gul-li-ia ‘1 set of p.’ is listed in an inventory text in a short paragraph after earrings, it is agreed that the parzagulliya set also serves as an ornament (Siegelová 1988a:442f., 611, CHD P:202, HHw:126, Ünal 2007a:529, HEG P:513; no comment in Košak 1978a:100, 103; outdated Haas 1997a:341: ‘ein Gerät’). Based on recent interpretation of *parza- as ‘black magnetite or hematite’ and of *gulla- as ‘circle’ by Valério & Yakubovich 2010a:111 (see under the lemma of gullant(i)-), parzagulli(ya)- can be specified as the term for an ornament having loops (made) of hematite/magnetite (see also DCL:s.v. and Burgin 2022a:348).

[E.R.]

Valério & Yakubovich 2010a:111 analyze the noun as a compound made of parza ‘black magnetite or hematite’ and Akk. qullu ‘loop’ suffixed with and -i(ya)- formant. However, Melchert (DCL:s.v.) corrects the identification of the second member of compound and plausibly connects gull- with gulluštānn(i)- instead, resulting in the same meaning ‘loop’ or ‘ring’.

[E.R.]

With the two members of the compound originating in Luwian (see under the lemmata of parzašša/i- and kug(g)ulla-), the composite term itself is clearly Luwian as well (Valério & Yakubovich 2010a:111, DCL:s.v., Burgin 2022a:452).

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