māḫuwallašša/i-
‘(something positive)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 383
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
māḫuwallašša/i-
‘(something positive)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested once in a LNS manuscript of the Old Hittite festival for the Storm-god and the Sun-goddess.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | ma-a-˹ḫu-wa˺-al-la-aš-ša | KUB 35.133 iii 14 | (CTH 665, LNS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
A reading of ma-a-˹ú-wa˺-al-la-aš-ša is proposed in Starke 1985a:281, followed in CLL:145, while ma-a-˹ḫu-wa˺-al-la-aš-ša is considered less likely. However, comparison with other attestations of <ú> on the same tablet shows that <ú> is virtually excluded, since no trace of the second initial horizontal can be detected, although it should visible.
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1.1.4Meaning
The genitival adjective is derived from a noun that must denote something positive, since the god (probably the Storm-god) is asked to grant its quality together with that of other entities, of which only GEŠTIN-anza ‘of grapevine’ is understood. Any connection with Hitt. NINDAmaḫḫue/i(l)la- (a kind of bread or pastry) listed in CHDL-N: 113 would be ad hoc.
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1.1.5Stem
Although it is unclear which of the following words is the head noun of māḫuwallašša or even if there is an overt head noun at all (Yakubovich, pers. comm., assumes it to be mašḫariešša, which he tentatively translates as ‘growth (?)’), an interpretation as genitival adjective in -ašša/i- is very likely.
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1.1.6Origin
No etymology possible.
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