ipal(i)-

Attestations of this lexeme are found only in ritual texts of the Kuwattalla tradition (from MS onwards).

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abl./instr.	i-pa-la-a-ti	KUB 35.43 ii 16	(CTH 761, NS)
	i-pa-la-ti	KUB 35.20 obv. 6’	(CTH 761, MS)

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The semantic interpretation as ‘left (hand)’ goes back to Laroche 1958a:102-104, who recognized the pseudo-bilingual passages in KUB 35.43 ii 16-18 and KUB 9.4 ii 18-21 (dupl. KUB 9.34 iii 5f.:

            ⁽¹⁶⁾i-pa-la-a-ti-du-wa-an ḫu-⸢i⸣-[n]u-wa-aḫ-ḫa a-du-ut-ta i-pa-la-a-ti-en

            ⁽¹⁷⁾la-at-ta i-šar-ú-i-la-t[i-p]a-du-wa-an ḫu-u-i-nu-wa-aḫ-ḫa

            ⁽¹⁸⁾a-du-ut-ta at-tu-wa-li-in ḫ[a-a]t-ta-aš-ta-ri-in la-at-ta (KUB 35.43 ii 16-18)

            ⁽¹⁸⁾gùb-la-az-za-an-ta ḫu-u-i-nu-nu-un

                ⁽¹⁹⁾nu-uš-ši-kán gùb-la-tar da-a-aš

            ⁽²⁰⁾zag-na-ma-an-da ḫu-u-i-nu-nu-un

            ⁽²¹⁾nu-ut-ták-kán i-da-a-lu ḫa-tu-ga-tar da-a-aš

            “I have made it run to his left, so that it took his sinisterness. I have made it run to his right, so that it took his evil terror.” (Yakubovich & Mouton 2023a:298f.)

The adverbial Luwian abl./instr. ipalāti indubitably corresponds to Hitt. gùb-laz ‘to the left’. Accordingly, the translation is generally accepted; cf. DLL:51f., HW:424, CLL:90, HHw:62, Oettinger 1986b, 49f., Starke 1990a:296, 508f., Melchert 1994a:254, Melchert 2003b:195.

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Following Oettinger 1986b:49f. (modified by Starke 1990a:296 and Melchert 2003b:195), the word is composed of a base *ip(a)- and an adjectival suffix -ā-l(i)- (with i-mutation).

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1. ipalāt(i)-

For the lemma head see CLuw. *ip(a)-.