alinna/i-

The word occurs in two NS manuscripts of the Ištanuwa festival within Luwian the song incipits.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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No meaning is assigned in DLL:25, CLL:8, and HHw:13. The context at KBo 4.11 rev. 47-49 probably consists of a single sentence: tap-pa-ši-tar ta-pa-la tap-pa-ši-tar ta-pa^!-la la-am-ma-úr ti-ti-ya-a-la a-li-na-an ḫal-ti-it-ta-ri DINGIR^MEŠ-zi. Accepting Carruba’s (Carruba 1998c:75) and Sasseville’s (Sasseville 2021a:415) translation of tapala as ‘storm-clouds’ and of ḫaltittari as ‘he is called’ (see under Lemmata), it is suggested in this dictionary that

1. lammaur is an abstract noun derived with -w(a)r/-un- *lamna(i)-^(di) ‘to name’ (see under Lemma) used in adverbial function (‘by name, with the denomination’),
2. titiyāl(i)- means something like ‘lactating, nourishing’ (ultimately cognate with the root of tītan- ‘(female) breast, teat’);
3. under the respective lemmata. If the resulting translation of the sentence is correct (“in the sky the storm-clouds, in the sky the storm-clouds are called alinan with (their) denomination ‘nourishing ones’, oh Gods”), then alinan functions most likely as the modifier of lammaur in formal agreement with the acc. sg. n., either as an adjectival attribute in a poetic hyperbaton or as an apposition. Semantically, alinan could refer to the quality of the name (e.g., ‘a good name’) or its origin and location of use (cf. KBo 25.112 ii 11’f.: “mercy, oh Sun-goddess! [Among] m[ankind] you are the Sun-goddess, but among the gods (you) are the light[ing]”). The latter conforms well with the concept of a ‘foreign denomination’, in which case alinan represents another derivative of the well-known root *al- ‘other’ with its metaphoric meanings ‘distant’, ‘foreign’, ‘hostile’, and ‘wild’ (see under Stem). Accordingly, the full translation of the expression is “are called with (their) foreign denomination ‘nourishing ones’” or “are called with (their) denomination ‘nourishing ones’ in a foreign manner.”

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While the attestation at KUB 35.137 rev. 3’ does not contribute anything to the semantic elucidation, it provides the expected spelling with geminate -nn-. This confirms that we are dealing with a derivative in -anna/i-. Its base, a putative *al-iya- c. ‘foreignness’ (← *al-i(ya)- ‘other, foreign’, underwent the common syncope of -iya- > -i-.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. āla/i-.