pūri(ya)-

The lexeme is found only twice in duplicate versions (both NS) of a Kizzuwatnean ritual text.

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dat./loc. pl.	pu-u-ri-ia-a[n-za]	KUB 15.32 iv 54	(CTH 484, NS)
	[pu]-ri-ia-an-za	KUB 15.31 iv 24’	(CTH 484, NS)

Contra Melchert (DCL:s.v.), the form in -anza is interpreted as dat./loc. pl. in agreement with ḫumandaš, both being governed by anda.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The lexeme is classified as a noun with unknown meaning in CHD:389, HHw:136, and HED P:661. Only Melchert (DCL:s.v.) considers a substantivized -i(ya)- adjective deriving from pūr(i)- ‘lip, edge, rim’. Since it seems to refer to a place below the great gate of the city of Zippalanda, he tentatively suggests an interpretation as ‘outskirts’ (from ‘of the rim/edge’). The context runs as follows: ^(23’)[pa-a-r]a-ma [(a-na ká.gal ^URUzi-ip)-pa-la-an-da] kat-ta-an uru-aš ^(24’)pu-u-ri-ia-a[(n-za ḫu-u)-m(a-an-da-)aš (an-da 1-e-et)-ta ...] “Further, they [                 ] to/as a single one below the gate of the city of Zippalanda in all outskirts of the city.”. It accords well with Melchert’s derivational analysis, which, therefore, is tentatively accepted here.

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For the analysis as the substantivization of a relational adjective of pūr(i)- ‘lip, edge, rim’, see under Meaning.

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The form in -anza, be it dat./loc. pl. as suggested here or nom./acc. sg. n. as assumed in DCL:s.v., point to a Luwian origin. Also, the use of the -i(ya)- suffix for the formation of a relational adjective is highly productive in Luwian, but not so in Hittite.

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For the lemma head see CLuw. pūr(i)-.