pūriyalla/i

The sole attestation with gloss-wedges is found in a NS inventory text, while others without gloss-wedge marking occur, from MS onwards, in rituals, festivals, and hippological texts.

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nom. sg. c.	pu-u-ri-ia<<-ša>>-la-š(=)	KBo 47.42 ii 7’	(CTH 500, MS)
nom./acc. sg. n.	pu-ri-ia-al-li	KUB 29.52 iv 1	(CTH 286, MS)
	pu-u-ri-[ia-al-l]i	KUB 1.13 i 23	(CTH 284, NS)
	⸢pu-ri-al-li?⸣	KBo 11.25 v 10	(CTH 656, NS)
	pu-ri-al-li	KBo 18.153 i 13’	(CTH 242, NS)
	pu-u-ri-ia-al	KBo 25.184 ii 3	(CTH 450, NS)
	⸢pu-ri-ia⸣-al-la-an	KBo 18.176 i 7’	(CTH 241, NS)

The attestations in KUB 29.53 i 8’ and KUB 29.40 ii 24’ (CHD P: 388) are incomplete and, therefore, ambiguous as to their stem.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The semantic interpretation of the lexeme was based on contextual analysis, for the details of which see CHD P:388, and it is confirmed by the transparent suffixal morphology. Building on pūr(i)- ‘lip, edge, rim’ as the starting point (van Brock 1962a:110, Kronasser 1966a:212, Starke 1990a:471, CLL:180, HEG P:660, HED PE, PI, PU:133), pūriyalla/i- was formed with the suffix -alli- for neuter instrument nouns and the Hittite adaptation of the productive Luwian relational suffix -alla/i-. Its basic meaning ‘belonging to the lip’ was concretized to denote several objects that cover the lips of men and horses or function as an ornament or cover of vessels (Burgin 2022a:351).

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The variety of neuter stems such as puriyalla-, puriyalli- and puriyal- (see under Forms) is paralleled by a group of other lexemes treated in Rieken 1999a:431-445 (followed in HED PE, PI, PU:133 and DCL:s.v.). The stem in -alli- represents a genuinely Hittite derivative, puriyal- shows the apocopated variant thereof, while puriyalla- can be analyzed as a Hittite a-stem abstracted from a Luwian relational adjective in -alla/i-. Whereas the neuter gender of the last noun comes unexpected, it may have been influenced by the neuter stem in -alli-.

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The group of stems described under Stem include a mixture of Hittite and Luwian derivatives with l-suffixes. The gloss-wedge marked neuter stem pūrialli- conforms to Hittite derivational rules, whereas unmarked puriyallan is based on Luw. puriyalla/i- (for signs of linguistic interference in the word family, see Starke 1990a:471, CLL:180, Starke 1995a:116 n. 225, Rieken 1999a:435, van den Hout 2006a:242).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. pūr(i)-.