allauwāi-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾

A song incipit in the festival of Ištanuwa provides the only attestation of this lexeme.

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The tentative morphological interpretation follows CLL:9 and Sasseville 2021a:414 (also provisionally accepted in HHw:13).

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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CLuw. allawai-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ occurs in a pair of sentences: al-la-mu pa-mu al-la-ú-wa-a-⸢i-ú⸣, the syntax of which seems to suggest a “translation” such as (based on Sasseville 2021a:414): “The alla for/to me, let it (scil. the alla) allauwāi- for/to me!” While the short and fragmentary context of the song incipit does not permit a semantic elucidation of the lexeme (DLL:25, CLL:19, HHw:13), a relationship of alla=mu (ibid. iv^(!) 11, see under Lemma alla(/i)-) and allawāi-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ with allat(i)- ‘distance (?)’ and allatima- ‘area in a distance, distant area (?)’ is at least possible. Also, the use of the -wa- suffix in the derivational chain of allawāi-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ could speak for this connection (see under Stem).

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The only imperatives known to end in -ayu belong to the class of -āi-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾. If allawāi-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ is really derived from alla (attested in the same line), the latter must have been suffixed with -wa-, which is especially frequent in derivatives of local adverbs and in designations for social groups. The resulting *allawa- was further turned into a verb by assigning it to the denominal verbs in -ai-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ (Sasseville 2021a:414f.; alternatively, but less likely, he also considers the univerbation of alla and a verb *uwai-/-iya-⁽ⁱ⁾ unknown so far).

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1. ^DAlauwaim(i)- (CLL:9, but consistent singleton -l- speaks against a connection)