*au̯li-
‘(tube-shaped organ)’
- Language
- Proto-Anatolian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3880
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
aul(i)-
‘(tube-shaped organ)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested once in a ritual fragment.
[E.R.]
1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | a-u-la-ti | KUB 35.79 iii? 4’ | (CTH 765, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The equivalence of Hitt. UZU/UDUauli- and the stem underlying CLuw. aulati was already suggested in DLL:35 and is generally accepted; cf. HED A:231, HEG A-K:94f., CLL:42, HHw:s.v., Rieken 1999a:439-441, EDHIL:229f.; skeptical HW 2nd ed.:631. This implies at least some semantic similarity. Contra HED A:231 (‘spleen’), Kühne 1986a was able to demonstrate that the Hittite word designates a tube-shaped organ in the throat, which is pierced during sacrifice, i.e. the blood vessels or the trachea or a combination thereof. That the Luwian word really belongs to the same semantic field gains support from the occurrence of UZUÉLLAG ‘kidney’, another body part, two lines later.
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
On account of the Hittite cognate UZU/UDUauli-, which is a common gender stem, CLuw. instr. aulati is tentatively assigned the stem aul(i)- c. here, assuming that it is a case of “reversed i-mutation”, i.e. that the original i-stem replaced -i- with -a- in the oblique case forms resulting in a mutating stem (cf. Rieken 1999a:441f.).
[E.R.]
1.3 Hittite
auli-
‘(tube-shaped organ in the throat)’1.3.1Literature / Comments
HW 2nd ed. A:631.
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘(tube-shaped organ)’
The connection between Hitt. auli- c. ‘(tube-shaped organ in the throat)’ and e.g. the Greek word αὐλός ‘pipe, flute’ is beyond doubt (Kühne 1986a, Kimball 1994a:13f.), although the former represents an actual i-stem. The Anatolian data speaks for a reconstruction of the “root” as *au̯l- (contra EDHIL:229f. and EDG:170, we do not accept the ad hoc loss of *h2 before *-o-, which was only invented to avoid reconstructing the vowel *a for PIE). The preservation of the diphthong in Luwian is striking, but it is possible that etymological *au̯ behaved differently from *ou̯ or *eu̯ or that the word was syllabified as [a.u̯li-].
Lydian awλa-, from which Greek αὐλή may have been borrowed, reflects the regular outcome of an unaccented diphthong.
[D.S.]