iparwašša/i-

The lexeme is found only in bird oracle reports (all NS). More attestations are listed in Ertem 1965a:215, HED A, E, I:374, and HW 2nd ed. I:68f.

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nom. sg. c.	i-pár-wa-aš-ši-iš	KBo 2.6 iv 22	(CTH 577, NS)
	[i-p]ár-wa-aš-ši-iš	KUB 49.46 obv. 6’	(CTH 580, NS)
acc. sg. c.	i-pár!-wa-aš-ši-i[n]	KUB 16.73, 10’	(CTH 573, NS)
dat./loc. sg.	⸢i⸣-pár-wa-aš-ši	KUB 5.22 obv. 18’	(CTH 573, NS)
nom./acc. pl. n.(?)	⸢i⸣-pár-wa-aš-ša	KBo 11.68 i 21’	(CTH 573, NS)

Starke 1990a:39 restores i-pár-wa-aš-ša at KBo 11.68 obv. i 21’ as a dat./loc. sg. i-pár-wa-aš-ša-〈an〉. – The alleged form i-pár-wa-aš-ši-ia-aš at KUB 49.46 obv. 6’ (thus HW 2nd ed. I:68) must be read ḫal^!-wa-aš-ši-ia-aš (over erasure) with preceding [i-p]ár-wa-aš-ši-iš as its attribute. – For iparwišša-, see under iparwi(ya)-.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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While iparwašša/i- was first interpreted as an oracle bird’s name (Götze 1930d:402, Boissier 1935a:36, Güterbock 1956a:127, 132, HW:83, 331, Ertem 1965a:215f., Kronasser 1966a:167, 228), Archi 1975a:163-165 was able to show that iparwašša/i- functions as an adjectival attribute to a following oracle bird’s name. Moreover, he demonstrated that it has a directional meaning. Puhvel (HED A, E, I:374) comments: “possibly ‘northwest(erly)’, because when the augur steps (and presumably faces) iparwassi, the bird in its turn (egir) comes (uit) up (ugu) auspiciously (sig₅) towards the sun (^Dutu-un) and implicitly towards the observer, thus from a direction away from the sun.” Slightly modifying Puhvel’s conclusion, one may assume that iparwašša/i- denotes ‘western’, since the sun rises in the east (thus de Roos 1990a:90f., CLL:90, Melchert 1994a:254, Zorman 2007a:764, Sasseville 2021a:185, 191, DCL:s.v.; HW 2nd ed. I:68f. without identification of the cardinal direction; different HHw:62 ‘zu linker Hand, links befindlich’; undecided HEG A-K:364, Ünal 2007a:261). The interpretation of the iparwašša/i- thus agrees with the independent elucidation of its cognate HLuw. /ibam(i)-/ ‘west’.

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Partly following HED A, E, I:374f., the derivational chain starts from *ipar- and further to *iparwa/i- with the polar suffix -wa(/i)-. Finally, relational -ašša/i- was added to the substantivized stem. This is also accepted in CLL:90 and HW 2nd ed. I:68f.

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Gloss wedge marking, root and suffixes indicate clearly that the lexeme originates in Luwian (see Güterbock 1956a:132, CLL:90, Melchert 2005a:450, HHw:62, HW 2nd ed. I:68f.).

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