altannima-

The sole attestation of the lexeme is found in one of the songs of Lallupiya.

[E.R.]

dat./loc. sg.

al-ta-an-ni-ma

KBo 4.11 rev. 51

(CTH 772, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

CLL:11 rejects the direct equation with “Hitt.” aldanni- (suggested in DLL:26) arguing with the absence of a particle =ma in Luwian. None of the dictionaries, including HHw:14 and HW 2nd ed. A:63, offers a translation.

The incipit of the relevant song runs as follows: imma wārina imma wārina altannima appa mannun ^dayantī (KBo 4.11 rev. 50-52). Sasseville 2021a:532 n. 2 assumes a common gender stem in -ma-, comparing it with Pal. kuwalima- ‘enclosure’, and proposes an interpretation of altannima appa as “behind the altannima (dat./loc. sg.).” This analysis is adopted here with the modification of positing -ima- instead of -ma-, based on the Palaic lexeme just cited and on tūwallanatima- and allatima-, both ‘area in a distance, distant area’. In each case, -ima- seems to indicate the area around or close to the item denoted by the base and, thus, provides a good sense. As for altannima-, it is a priori likely that it is a derivative of aldann(i)-
‘spring well’, which results in a translation as ‘area of the well, sacred spring basin’.

With reference to other song incipits referring to rain and fertility, the present lines are tentatively translated here as “Irrigate indeed, irrigate indeed behind/at the area of the spring the fertile (one) for Ayant-!” (see also under appa and wārina-).

[E.R.]

The dat./loc. sg. in -a points to a non-mutated a-stem. For the word-final suffix -ima-, see under Meaning.

[E.R.]

For the lemma head, see CLuw. aldann(i)-.