lēlari-^(ti)

The base verb is attested only once in a NS oracle report, whereas the -ške/a- imperfective occurs five times from OH/MS texts (ritual and myths) onwards (for more attestations, see CHD L-N:59).

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3pl. pres. act.	[l]e-e-la-ri-in-ti	KBo 53.102, 10’’	(CTH 579, NS)
1pl. pres. act. imperf. (Hitt.)	li-la-a-ri-iš-ke-wa-n[i]	KBo 15.10 i 22	(CTH 443, MS)

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The restoration of the first sign in [l]e-e-la-ri-in-ti, first proposed in Soysal 2009a:301, is supported by the occurrence of le-e-la-aš in the next line (ibid. 11’’).

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Following Güterbock 1968a:68 with n. 12, lilāreške/a-^(mi) can be assigned the same meaning as the shorter -ške/a- verb lile/iške/a-^(mi) and its base verb lilā(i)-^(mi) (see CHD L-N:59 for the significant contexts; cf. also HEG L-N:57, HED L:79, HHw:94, Ünal 2007a:402). Only in 2005, an attestation of base verb of lilāreške/a-^(mi) was published, viz. the Luwianism lilarinti with the Luwian 3pl. pres. act. ending -inti. The relevant fragment is very small but contains enough lexical material to show that is an incantation for the soothing of the soul of the deity by sympathetic magic.

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For the e vocalism of the reduplication syllable, see under līla-^(ti) ‘to pacify, soothe’. A plausible analysis of the stem formation of lilāreške/a-^(mi) was suggested by Kronasser 1962-1966:508 and hesitantly supported by Oettinger 1979a:351f. They considered the verb to be the ‑ške/a- formation of a denominative verb in -ariye/a-^(mi), with the suffix -ariye/a- being abstracted from -iye/a-^(mi) denominatives of nouns in -(C)ro- (now known to develop into -(C)ar-). A parallel suffix -ari-^(ti) is also found in Luwian (e.g. ḫattari-^(ti)).For unknown reasons, CHD L-N:59 and EDHIL:524 regard the stem formation as unclear. The only special feature of lilāriške/a-^(mi) and lēlari-^(ti) lies in the fact that it was derived from a synchronic -a- stem, which probably led to -ā- in first suffix syllable (spelled with plene -a-).

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Melchert (DCL:s.v.) is the only scholar who explicitly deems Luwian the most likely origin of lēlari-^(ti) and the inner-Hittite derivative lilāriške/a-^(mi) (in fact of the entire word family). Although the early attestation of lilāriške/a-^(mi) (OH/MS) makes Melchert’s borrowing scenario less likely, it does not exclude it. If līla- were of Proto-Anatolian age, one would expect *li-lh₁-o- to develop into **lilla- with assimilation of the laryngeal. Therefore, lēlari-^(ti) is regarded here as a Luwianism, with a Hittitization regarding the vocalism e of the reduplicative formant (for the latter, see under līla-^(ti)).

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For the lemma head see CLuw. līla-.