urayann(i)-

The sole occurrence of the word is found in a ritual fragment.

[E.R.]

dat./loc. sg.

u-ra-ia-an-ni

KBo 29.43, 6’

(CTH 768, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The only dictionaries that list urayann(i)- are CLL:244, HHw:187 and EDHIL:926f. While the first two do not assign a meaning, the latter adduces the Cuneiform Luwian lexeme as a possible indicator that ^LÚurayann(i)- (or ^LÚuriyann(i)-), the title of a functionary, is a non-Hittite word.

The context being as fragmentary and ill-understood as it is, the most important clue to the meaning of urayann(i)- is the stem formation. The word can be analyzed as the base ura/i- ‘great’ plus the abstract suffix -a- (i.e. *ura- c. ‘greatness’) plus adjectival -i(ya)- (i.e. *urai(ya)- ‘related to greatness’; cf. Rieken 2005b:68) plus -ann(i)-, thus urayann(i)- ‘the one related to greatness’ (for the last suffix, see Kronasser 1966a:222). It is likely that the word refers to a person of military rank, since the preceding line features the lexeme kuwalanalli(ya)- ‘of the army, military’.There is no reason to assume that the derivative urayann(i)- also means ‘great’, as Starke 1990a:167 seems to do. Likewise outdated is his assumption of a contraction of -aya- > -a- in urann(i)-, but see under the Lemma.

[E.R.]

For the derivational chain of the mutating stem in -ann(i)-, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

The only extant attestations of the lexeme come from two votive texts.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The only dictionaries that list ^LÚurayann(i)- are CLL:244, HHw:187, DCL:s.v., and EDHIL:926f. For the meaning, see under Luwian ^LÚuriyann(i)- in Hittite transmission.

[E.R.]

See under the CLuw. lemma above.

[E.R.]

EDHIL:926f. adduces the Cuneiform Luwian lexeme urayann(i)- as a possible indicator that ^LÚurayann(i)- (or ^LÚuriyann(i)-), the title of a functionary, is a non-Hittite word. He seeks further confirmation in the frequent use of the stem form of ^LÚuriyann(i)- and the alternation of word-internal -a- and -i-, but the former is to be expected in lists of names and professions of officials, while the latter is due to two competing formations productive in Luwian (see under Stem). Thus, the stem formation, the Luwian base ura/i-, and the attestation of urayann(i)- in Cuneiform Luwian context indicate that the lexeme was borrowed from that language. In fact, the early (OS) occurrence of the word and its meaning show that it belongs to the old layer of superstratal Luwian borrowings in Hittite that was detected by Yakubovich 2010d:227-239; cf. Rieken 2005a:68, DCL:s.v.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. ura/i-.