lila(i)-^(di)

Both attestations are found in the same line of a song from one of the Lallupiya tablets.

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3sg. impv. act.(?)	[li-l]a-i-lu	KUB 32.13, 6’	(CTH 771, MS)
	li-la-i-lu	KUB 32.13, 6’	(CTH 771, MS)

Melchert (CLL:127 and DCL:s.v.), Yakubovich 2017d, and Sasseville 2021a:89 analyze the form as the 1sg. impv. act. However, an interpretation as the 3sg. impv. act. would be paralleled by the Ištanuwian 3sg. pres. act. form ili (KBo 4.11 rev. 44) of the verb ī-^(di) ‘to go’, which likewise features -l- in a lenited 3sg. ending.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The common occurrence with the 3pl. pret. act. lilandu ‘let them pacify/soothe’ speaks for a verb within the same semantic domain. While most scholars integrated the forms in a single paradigm (CLL:127, EDHIL:524), Sasseville 2021a:28, 89 proposed to posit two stems lila-^(ti) and lila(i)-^(di), but with identical meanings. If, however, the formal analysis of lilailu as 3sg. impv. act. is correct, a new and coherent interpretation of the relevant text passage is possible: ⁽⁶⁾[li-l]a-i-lu li-la-i-lu [ ... ] ⁽⁷⁾[l]i-la-an-du-an dingi[r^MEŠ ... ] “may he become calm, may he become calm! [ ... ] Let the god[s] soothe him! [ ... ]” (KUB 32.13, 6’f.). According to this interpretation, the subject referent of intransitive lilailu is identical with the referent of the accusative object of transitive lilandu.

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Following Sasseville 2021a:28, 89, lila(i)-^(di) is a distinct stem to be kept separate from lila-^(ti) (contra Rieken 2005a:69, CLL:127, EDHIL:524, DCL:s.v.; for the phenomenon, see Sasseville 2015a:287f.). While both are denominative stems deriving lila- c. ‘pacification, soothing’, they may still differ semantically (see under Meaning).

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The only assured form of the verb occurs in a ritual text with Hurrian background.

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3sg. pret. act.

li-la-a-it[

KUB 41.19 obv. 17

(CTH 780, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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In the given context of an incantation (with li-la-[ ibid. i 8’), there can be no doubt that lilā(i)-^(mi) belongs to the same word family as līla- ‘pacification, soothing’ and, accordingly, means ‘to pacify, soothe’ (cf., e.g., CHD L-N:57).

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The stem formant -ā(i)-^(mi) derives denominative verbs in Hittite. Therefore, lilā(i)-^(mi) can be either a Hittitized variant of the stem lila-^(ti) borrowed from Luwian, or a Hittite derivative of the Luwian loanword līla- ‘pacification, soothing’.

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Few scholars seem to assume that lilā(i)-^(mi) goes back to a Hittitized borrowing or derives a borrowing (thus CLL:127, DCL:s.v., and Sasseville 2021a:89; see also under Stem), which is the most economic assumption. Oettinger 1979a:382 cautiously opts for a genuinely Hittite verb (others are not explicit in this regard).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. līla-.