*HElu̯ā-
‘(something pertaining to cheer)’
- Language
- Proto-Luwic
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 4121
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
*ḫalwa-
‘(something pertaining to cheer)’1.1.1Transmission
1.1.2Derivatives
1.2 Lycian A
*xluwa-
‘(something pertaining to cheer)(?)’1.2.1Transmission
This putative word is only attested in a Lycian personal name that has been interpreted as a compound, i.e. xluwãnime/i- (TL 67.1); see Starke 1990a:475, Shevoroshkin 2012a:471, Serangeli 2021a:190.
[D.S.]
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘(unknown)’
The comparison of the two Luwic elements Luw. *ḫalwa- and Lyc. *xluwa- with the possible meaning ‘joy, cheer (vel sim.)’ (see under Derivatives) allows for the reconstruction of an abstract noun in *-eh2- to an Indo-European root of the shape *Helg(h)u̯- with the Luwic sound change *g(h)u̯- > w or, if it has an extension, simply *Hel-u̯-. The latter could be connected to the root of Hitt. ḫalkueššar ‘supplies, profit’ (cf. HED H:40f., EDHIL:275, HEG A-H:134), if the semantic development can be accounted for. More evidence is needed.
[D.S.]
ḫalwati