maliya-

The lemma is a hapax occurring only in a fragmentary New Hittite oracle text.

[E.R.]

acc. or dat./loc. pl.

ma-li-ia-an?-za?

KUB 18.46 rev. 7’

(CTH 582, NS)

The last two signs do not read well, which is why DLL:66 and HW:332 transliterate ma-li-ya-x and ma-li-ya-ri(?), respectively.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

Since the context is unintelligible (we can only attempt to read [ … ANA(?) EZ]EN^?.SA[G ^?.U]Š ma-⸢li-ia-an^?-za^?⸣ ḫal-zé-eḫ-ḫe), no meaning can be assigned. None of the dictionaries translates the word (CHD L-N:129, HEG L-M:106, CLL:133, DCL:s.v and Ünal 2007a:421), but most recently, Melchert (DCL:s.v) suggests an interpretation as the epithet of a festival.

[E.R.]

The lexeme is surely a substantive, but nothing more can be said, except perhaps that the word may or may not be linked to Luwian māl-, as DCL:s.v suggests.

[E.R.]

Obviously, the word is Luwian, since it shows Luwian morphology (thus also van den Hout 2006a:244).

[E.R.]

*This lemma was written together with the trainee Marco Ammazzini.

For the lemma head see CLuw. māl-.