taruwāliya-

Both attestations are found in a single text, viz. the Tablet of Lallupiya.

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acc. sg.	tar-u-wa-a-li-i[a-a]n	KUB 25.37 i 37’ + KUB 51.9 i 3’	(CTH 771, NS)
nom./acc. coll.	⸢tar-u-wa-li-ia⸣	KUB 25.37 ii 19’	(CTH 771, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – Reading at KUB 25.37 i 37’ + KUB 51.9 i 3’ after Starke 1990a:382 n. 1380.

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Based on the assumed connection with tarwiške/a- ‘to dance’ (found twice in the preceding description of the activities at ii 15’-18’; for the meaning, see Götze 1939a:117f.), similar semantics were assigned to taruwāliya-.Starke’s (Starke 1993a:30) interpretation of the verb taru- as ‘to rage’ is outdated, which renders any conclusions for tarwāliya- obsolete. The interpretation of the first attestation as ‘dancer (?)’ in the earlier literature (Laroche 1958a:197, HW:427,DLL:94, Oettinger 1979a:225, HEG T:247, but also HHw:171) was due to the erroneous restoration of tar-u-wa-a-li-x[, at a time when the join with KUB 51.9 containing word-final -a]n was still unpublished (transliteration only in Starke 1990a:604). Later, Starke 1990a:382 n. 1380 analyzed the fully restored form taruwāli[y]an as an adverb, trying to render the medio-passive diathesis of the sentential verb wintar by means of the translation ‘they appear’ (wintar wintar taruwāli[ya]n wintar “they appear, they appear, they appear in t. manner”). Following this line of thought, Melchert (DCL:s.v.) took the form as an adverb ‘dancing(?)’, i.e. “they appear dancing(?).” Recently, Sasseville 2021a:343 revived Melchert’s (CLL:269) originally transitive interpretation of wintar: “they observe, they observe, they observe the dance”, with taruwāliyan as an acc. sg. c. ‘dance’. Given the same transitive construction at KBo 4.11, 59’, an accusative form represents indeed the preferable alternative. It also accords well with the second attestation (tarwaliya tarpattati āšta “there were dances with tramplings(?)”, KUB 25.37 ii 19’).

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Following the semantic analysis of Sasseville 2021a:343, the lexeme must be classified as a common gender abstract noun in -iya- without i-mutation (contra Melchert CLL:219: “I tentatively interpret as adj. to vbl. noun *tarwal- < *tarwa- ‘dance’”).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. tar(k)u-.