aliya-

The attestation of this lexeme is limited to festival texts, i.e., the Ištanuwa festival and that mentioning the ašuša(tal)la- functionaries.

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acc. sg.	a-li-i-ia-an	KUB 35.133 ii 6’	(CTH 665, LNS)
	a-l[i-i]a-an	KBo 51.221, 3’ + KUB 55.38 iii 9’	(CTH 772, NS)
	⸢a⸣-li-ia-an	KBo 51.221, 3’, 4’	(CTH 772, NS)
	a-li-ia-an	KUB 55.38 iii 9’	(CTH 772, NS)

Contra DLL:26, a-li-i-ia-an at KUB 35.133 ii 6’ cannot be the acc. sg. of āla/i- (CLL:10).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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None of dictionaries has offered a translation so far (DLL:26, CLL:10, HHw:14). The word is repeated three times in the acc. sg., before a new clause follows with pìrig.tur ‘leopard’ and another instance of aliyan, thus a-li-ia-an a-l[i-i]a-an a-li-ia-an pìrig.tur-in-pa a-li-ia-an. Obviously, aliyan functions as a modifier of pìrig.tur-in. In view of the other Anatolian lexemes derived from *al-i̯o- ‘belonging to the other, alien, hostile’, Rieken & Yakubovich 2022a:271 proposed to interpret aliya- as ‘not domesticated animal, wild animal’, which would conform perfectly to the idea of a leopard. For the analysis as a substantive, see under Stem.

[E.R.]

The acc. sg. c. in -an precludes the morphological analysis as a mutated -a/i- adjective. Instead, the non-mutated ending reveals a common gender stem in -a- (< *-eh₂-), i.e. with an individualizing formant, attached to an -i(ya)- adjective.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. āla/i-.