alanna/i-
‘hostile (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3202
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
alanna/i-
‘hostile (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is found in a NS Ištanuwa festival text and a MS fragment belonging to the Tauriša tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | a-⸢la⸣-ni-in | KBo 4.11 rev. 56 | (CTH 772, NS) |
| unknown | a-la-an-n[i- | KUB 35.109 iii 5’ | (CTH 765, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
No meaning is assigned in DLL:25, CLL:8, and HHw:13. While the context at KUB 35.109 iii 5’ does not provide any useful information, at KBo 4.11 rev. 56f., a-⸢la⸣-ni-in=tar ... ˹za˺-am-ma-ni-ia-an probably designates a negative concept contrasting with the za-am-ma-na-an-˹te˺-in ... Dwa-ar-wa-li-ia-an ‘damaged god of sowing/fertility’ (ibid. 58f., see also HEG U-Z:645f.). If so, a ‘hostile person causing damage’ seems to be a plausible option, allowing to relate alanna/i- to the root al- ‘other’ with its metaphoric meanings ‘distant’, ‘foreign’, ‘hostile’, and ‘wild’.
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1.1.5Stem
If the semantic interpretation ‘hostile’ considered under Meaning is correct, alanna/i- can be analyzed as the root al- derived with the mutating suffix -anna/i-.
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. āla/i-.