ḫalwatnalla/i-

The lexeme is a hapax legomenon attested in an “Offering and prayer to the Storm-god of Nerik”, a Neo-Hittite composition.
[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

Connecting the adjective with Hitt. ḫalluwatar ‘quarrel’ Haas 1970a:147 tentatively renders ḫalwatnallin zi-an as “Gereiztheit(??)”. In a similar vein, Starke 1990a:475 provides the meanings ‘zornig, wütend’; cf. also HED H:50 (‘quarrelsome’), HHw:37 (‘gereizt, erbost, erregt?’), Ünal 2007a:155 ‘angry? irritable?’), Ünal 2016a:146 (‘angered, aroused’), HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:92 (‘gereizter/zorniger Sinn’), HEG A-K:137 (together with zi-an: ‘Zorn, Zank’), and Deighton 1982a:82 (together with zi-an: ‘bad temper’). On the other hand, Melchert (CLL:49, DCL:49) employs a translation ‘excited (vel sim.)’, which is neutral with regard to the positive or negative attitude towards the sentiment expressed.

The context consists of an invocation that requests the return of the Storm-god of Nerik and Wurunš/temu to the city of Nerik with benevolence (“regard Labarna, the king, (and) Tawananna, the queen [with a positive eye]!”), i.e. not turned away. The relevant passage runs as follows: ^{(obv. 30)}...^URUne-r[i-ik] ⸢e⸣-ḫu ^{(obv. 31)}[an-da]-wa-ra-aš ti-[ia]-⸢ad⸣-[d]u ^D10 ^URUne-ri-ik ^D⸢ú⸣-[ru-un-te-mu-i]a ḫal-wa-at-na-al-li-in-wa-za ^{(obv. 32)}[zi^?]-an pé-ra-an [ar-ḫa] ⸢e⸣-ep-du nu-⸢wa-kán⸣ [e-ḫu kar-di-mi-ia-at-ta-an]-wa a-pí-ia ar-ḫa tar-ni “Come to Nerik, let him/her [en]ter, Storm-god of Nerik and Wuruntemu! Let him/her encompass the ḫ. [mind^?]! And [up!] Leave [the anger] there!” The semantic contrast between the verbs ēp-/app-^(mi) ‘to seize’ and tarna-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to let, leave’ permits the conclusion that also the objects to be seized and left are antonyms, hence ‘cheerful mind’ (vs. ‘anger’) is a fully suitable translation, which, moreover, accords well with ḫalwam(ma)n- ‘cheering, rejoicing, laughter’, ḫalwatnazza-⁽ⁱ⁾ ‘to be cheerful’, and ḫalwati(ya)- ‘(act of) cheering’.

[E.R.]

van Brock 1962a:109 and Starke 1990a:475 consider ḫalwatnalla/i- a derivative of the reconstructed r/n-stem *ḫalwattar/-tn- (followed in CLL:49, DCL:49), whereas others still base it on a thematic stem *ḫalwatna- (HEG A-K:137, HED H:50). The former is now generally accepted for the heteroclitic stems. Its own lexical base was identified as /halwa-/ by Sasseville 2021a:445.

[E.R.]

On account of the linguistic assignment of the entire word family and, more specifically, of the preservation of the cluster -tn-, there is unanimous agreement on the Luwian origin of the word (see the references under Stem as well as Haas 1970a:167, Melchert 1994a:250, and HHw:37).

[E.R.]

For the lemma head see Luw. *ḫalwa-.