alla(/i)-
‘distant (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3291
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
alla(/i)-
‘distant (?)’1.1.1Transmission
A song incipit in the festival of Ištanuwa provides the only attestation of this lexeme.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. (?) | al-la | KUB 35.142 iv(!) 11’ | (CTH 772, NS) |
Alleged a-la?-ma cited in DLL:25 was corrected in Starke 1985b:250 (a-um-ma).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word appears in a pair of sentences (al-la-mu pa-mu al-la-ú-wa-a-⸢i-ú⸣ “the alla for/to me, let it (scil. the alla-) allauwai- for/to me!” (translation based on Sasseville 2021a:414). While the fragmentary context alone does not permit a semantic interpretation (DLL:25, CLL:19, HHw:13), it is very likely that alla represents a nominativus pendens (with the 1sg. personal pronoun =mu attached to it) loosely belonging to the subsequent clause with the verb allauwai-/-iya-(i), which is likely derived from the same stem as alla. If alla/i- constitutes the base of allat(i)- and allatima- ‘distant area (?)’, its meaning would be approximately ‘other (?), distant (?)’; hence the very tentative translation as “the distant one(s) for/to me, let it/them (scil. the alla) remain at a distance for/to me!”
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1.1.5Stem
If the identification as a nominative case form is correct and it also functions as the subject of the verb in the next clause, the stem underlying alla can be either a substantivized neuter plural or a collective form of alla/i-.
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