alalanti
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 3753
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
alalanti
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested only once in a MS fragment of the Tauriša tradition.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | a-la-la-an-ti | KUB 35.128 iii 8 | (CTH 765, MS) |
For the grammatical assignment, see under Meaning.
[E.R.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
No meaning is offered in DLL:35, CLL:7, HHw:13, and DCL:s.v. Yakubovich (pers. comm.) interprets the form as nominal. This is certainly correct, since in a full sentence a=kuwa alalanti a verbal interpretation of alalanti would require a subject pronoun. If the verb in the following line, lunni ‘we take’, belongs to the same clause, alalanti would be its indirect object. Without understanding the fragmentary context, any etymologically based interpretation such as ‘the wailing one’ (cf. Hitt. alalamneške/a-(mi) ‘to wail’) or ‘the enemy’ (cf. āla/i- ‘distant’) is entirely conjectural.
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1.1.5Stem
If the analysis as a nominal dat./loc. sg. is correct, the form is most likely a stem in -ant(i)- with i-mutation.
[E.R.]
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