/ur(a)iyall(i)-/
‘grandee’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3260
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/ur(a)iyall(i)-/
‘grandee’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested three times on texts written on lead strips from Tabal, dated to the late 8th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | /ur(a)iyalli/ | MAGNUS+ra/i-ia-li | KULULU lead strip 1, §49 (Tabal) |
| KULULU lead strip 2, §4 (Tabal) | |||
| dat./loc. pl. | /ur(a)iyallanz/ | MAGNUS+ra/i-ia-a-la-za | KIRŞEHİR, reverse §16 (Tabal) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation is not entirely transparent, it may be either /uraiyall(i)-/ (thus proposed by Sasseville 2021a:97f.) or /uriyall(i)-/, i.e. the /a/ could be intact or replaced; the HLuw. writing system is unable to convey the difference. On the one hand, the word evidently belongs to the family around /ura/i-/ ‘great’, yet on the other hand, it cannot be said with certainty due to its ambiguous spelling where it fits in morphologically; see the discussions under Meaning and Stem below.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
Hawkins 1987a:14 first suggested the meaning ‘officer’, changing it to a more general ‘grandee’ later in Hawkins 2000a:512 and connecting it to the verb [3259]/uraiya(i)-(di)/ ‘to be(come) great’. His interpretation is followed by Giusfredi 2010b:135f., who proposes that /ur(a)iyall(i)-/ constitutes a title, although without further specification regarding a possible semantic domain.
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1.1.5Stem
The lemma is a common gender noun and subject to i-mutation, obvious from the dat./loc. sg. in /-i/ (cf. Yakubovich 2015b:6.2). That makes the form a derivation in /-alla/i-/, originally an adjective but later substantivized like many other words from that category. Apart from that, the stem formation is not entirely clear due to the ambiguous spelling. The present noun could be derived from the existing form /uraiya-/, also meaning ‘grandee’ and originally an adjective, but attested only in substantival use in HLuw.
[AH.B.]
*This lemma was co-written with the trainee Marian Wehrstein.
For the lemma head see HLuw. /ura/i-/.