tūwallanatima-

The sole attestation of the word is found in a song incipit from the Ištanuwa festival.

[E.R.]

dat./loc. sg.

tu-u-wa-al-la-na-ti-ma

KUB 35.139 iv 6

(CTH 773, MS)

For the morphological and grammatical interpretation, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

The lexeme, which was overlooked already in DLL, is not listed in the dictionaries. The interpretation submitted here must be regarded as very tentative, because it involves several unproven assumptions. Nevertheless, it permits a coherent analysis.

Since the string of possible morphemes in tūwallanatimantan is extremely long and, moreover, the word occupies the sentence-initial position, it probably contains an enclitic chain. Unless one were to assume a contrastive conjunction =ma for Ištanuwa Luwian, the only option known from this dialect is an enclitic local particle =antan ‘in’ (cf. kuiš=ti(y)=appi with the local particle =appi as last part of the enclitic chain in the same text at i 9’, 10’, 14’, 17’). The remainder of the string tūwallanatima would then have to be a dat./loc. sg. in -a belonging to a non-mutated a-stem tūwallanatima-. The stem formation reminds of CLuw. altannima- ‘area of a spring’ from Ištanuwian KBo 4.11 rev. 51 (for the suffix -i-ma-, see Sasseville 2021a:532 n. 2). Also, the construction is similar to that in altannima appa ‘behind the area of the spring’.

[E.R.]

The derivation of this putative common gender a-stem includes the following steps: tūwā ‘in the distance, far away (?)’ → *tūwalla/i- ‘distant’ (cf. also Hitt. tūwala- ‘far’) → tūwallan(i)- ‘distance’ (a spontaneous poetic formation rhyming with duwan(i)-?) → tūwallanat(i)- collective ‘distant locations’ → tūwallanatima- ‘area of distant locations (?)’. As indicated, one wonders if this formation is not created for poetic reasons in order to generate a word longer than tūwalliya- and corresponding to tūwa allatima=ant[an] ibid. iv 8 (see under allatima-).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see CLuw. tūwā.