annaul(i)- (annawal(i)-)

The lexeme is found in a mythological text, oracle reports, a treaty, a letter and the “Tawagalawa letter”.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

Sommer 1932a:102 (based on remarks by Forrer and Götze) fully established the meaning ‘of equal rank, peer’, pointing out the parallelism between passages containing annauli- and Akk. meḫru, miḫru ‘of equal rank, peer’. The translation was generally accepted and entered the dictionaries (see HW:21, HEG A-K:29, HW 2nd ed. A:80f., HED:64f., HHw:16, Ünal 2007a:29).

[E.R.]

Yakubovich 2010b:380 n. 9 was the first to connect anna- in annauli- with the assumed reading /anna/ of HLuw. CUM-na ‘with’ (see also CLuw. ānna ‘?’). Although he still followed Puhvel’s (HED A, E, I:64) implausible interpretation of the second component as -wal(l)i- ‘strong’ at the time, the analysis of the first part is semantically superior to the other suggestions (Kronasser 1966a:212 suspects a compound with a first member anna- ‘mother’, while Puhvel in HED A, E, I:64 thinks of a compound made of a demonstrative pronoun anna-/anni- ‘self, same’ and wal(l)i- ‘strong’). Yakubovich’s identification of anna- ‘with’ was adopted by Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:307, who then parsed -wali- as the suffix -wa- (or -wa/i-) indicating comparison and social rank and -al(i)- for individualization (for the last suffix see already van Brock 1962a:115), hence the derivational chain anna- ‘with’ + -wa(/i)- (with syncope) + -al(i)- (thus also Yakubovich 2021a:237f., DCL:s.v.).

[E.R.]

While HW 2nd ed. A:80f. claimed that annauli- represents a borrowing of unknown origin in Hittite, the analysis as described under Stem speaks decidedly for a Luwian lexeme (cf. Melchert 2005a:450f. still with a question mark, Rieken & Sasseville 2014a:307, Yakubovich 2021a:237f., DCL:s.v.).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. anne.