/kappilalli(ya)-/, (“*314”)ka-pi-la-li-
‘pertaining to the hostile one’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 4085
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
/kappilalli(ya)-/, (“*314”)ka-pi-la-li-
‘pertaining to the hostile one’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a single inscription from Tell Ahmar, dating to the late 10th or early 9th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | /kappilallin/ | (“*314”)ka-pi-la-li-na | TELL AHMAR 1, §24 (Tell Ahmar) |
[A.P.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.13.1 Phonological Interpretation
The phonological interpretation of this lexeme is secure, because its morphological basis, the noun /kappilalla/i-/ ‘enemy’, is likewise attested. Moreover, the two words are connected to a number of cognates in CLuw. (e.g. kappilalla/i- ‘hostile, enemy’, see CLL:100f.) and Hittite (e.g. kappilaḫḫ- ‘to get in a fight’, see EDHIL:439).
Use of sign *314, whose meaning remains unknown, connects the present word to its derivational basis even more fully.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning was suggested by Hawkins 1978a:115 in connection with the noun /kappilalla/i-/ ‘enemy’, which appears in the same inscription two clauses later. TELL AHMAR 1, §24 reads: *a-[mi-pa-wa/i]-mi-i-tú (“*314”)ka-pi-la-li-na (FILIA)tú-wa/i-tara/i-na (FEMINA.PURUS.INFRA)ta-ni-ti-na i-zi-i-wa/i-i, approx. /a[mmin=ba=wa=]mi=du kappilallin tuwatrin tanidin izziwi/, meaning ‘I will make my enemy’s daughter a hierodule for him (scil. probably some aforementioned god)’ (cf. Hawkins 2000a:241).
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The form represents an adjective of appurtenance in /-i(ya)-/ (cf. e.g. Melchert 2003b:197), deriving from the substantivized adjective /kappilalla/i-/ ‘enemy’. Since the suffix undergoes i-mutation, it contracts to /i/ in some cases.
[AH.B.]
For the lemma head, see HLuw. */kappila(/i)-/.