urayann(i)-

The lexeme is found in oracle texts (from MS onwards). The forms listed below constitute a representative sample of the almost 20 attestations.

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nom. sg.	u-ra-⸢ia⸣-an-ni-eš	KUB 5.11 iv 60’	(CTH 577, NS)
	ú-ra-ia-an-ni-iš	IBoT 1.32 obv. 25	(CTH 577, NS)
	u-ra-⸢ia⸣-[ni]-⸢eš⸣	KBo 56.52 ii 10’	(CTH 557, NS)
	u-ra-⸢ia-an-ni-eš⸣	KBo 56.52 ii 5’	(CTH 557, NS)
	u-ra-ia-an-ni-išMUŠEN	KUB 50.1 ii 17’, ii 18’	(CTH 573, MS)
	u-ra-ia-an-ni-iš	KUB 18.26 iii? 7’	(CTH 577, NS)
acc. sg.	u-ra-ia-an-ni-i[n]	KBo 24.126 obv. 7	(CTH 577, NS)
nom. pl.	u-ra-ia-an-ni-uš	KUB 5.20 iii 18’	(CTH 577, NS)

Pecchioli Daddi 1975a:119f. correctly assigns several forms formerly listed under the functionary term to the bird’s name.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The spelling with ú- in ú-ra-ia-an-ni-iš at IBoT 1.32 obv. 25 is the single exception among all attestations of urayann(i)- and uriyann(i)- for both the functionary and the oracle bird.

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Like its variant uriyann(i)-^MUŠEN, urayann(i)-^MUŠEN denotes a kind of bird observed for oracles. The term is transferred from the name of a high official in Hittite administration, viz. ^LÚuriyann(i)-/^LÚurayann(i)-, but both the exact function of the official and the tertium elude us (see HW:235, 461, Pecchioli Daddi 1975a:119f., HHw:187; no connection seen by Ünal 2007a:764, EDHIL:926f., Watson 2008a:549, HEG U-Z:98).

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For the stem formation, see under ^LÚurayann(i)-.

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For the Luwian origin of urayann(i)-^MUŠEN, see ^LÚurayann(i)-.

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