tainalla/i-
‘fatty (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 4069
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
tainalla/i-
‘fatty (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The word occurs in small ritual fragment.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. or dat./loc. pl. | ḪUR.SAGta-i-na-al-la-an-za | KBo 48.273, 3’ | (CTH 470, NS) |
Attestation following DCL:s.v. The sequence could be read instead as ḪUR.SAG ta-i-na-al-la-an-za; cf. under Meaning.
[E.R.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
[E.R.]
1.1.4Meaning
The transparent stem formation permits an analysis as base noun tāin- ‘oil, fat’ derived with the adjectival -alla/i- suffix, which would lead to a translation as an adjective: ‘oily, fatty’. However, the logogram ḪUR.SAG ‘mountain’, which can also be used as a determinative for mountain names, precedes tainallanza without space. As a consequence, the interpretation as an oronym seems preferable (‘Mount Fatty’, or as a plurale tantum ‘Fatty Mountains’).
[E.R.]
1.1.5Stem
See under Meaning.
[E.R.]
1.1.6Origin
The base word tāin- with its specifically Luwian phonological shape and the Luwian suffix -alla/i- leave no doubt about the Luwian origin of the word (DCL:s.v.).
[E.R.]
For the lemma head see CLuw. tāin-.