allinašša/i-
‘(a type of bread, a festival)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 4131
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Luwian in Hittite transmission
allinašša/i-
‘(a type of bread, a festival)’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is found intact only twice, once in a fragment of festival and incantation rituals (CTH 500) and once in a fragment of Hittite-Hurrian rituals and incantations (CTH 790). Two more attestations in a list of Hurrian deities in festival rituals (CTH 705) are only partly preserved. An oracle report (CTH 568) found in Emar shows an additional attestation referring to a festival. It is also attested as a divine name Dallinašši- (van Gessel 1998a:25).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | NINDAal-li-⸢na⸣-[aš-ši-iš] | KUB 25.50 ii 2 | (CTH 705, NS) |
| NINDAal-li-na-aš-ši-iš | KBo 13.167 i 3 | (CTH 500, NS) | |
| NINDAal-li-na-[aš]-ši-⸢iš!?⸣ | KBo 64.194 l. col. 15’ | (CTH 790, NS) | |
| acc. sg. | [NINDAal-li]-⸢na⸣-aš-ši-en | KUB 25.50 ii 7 | (CTH 705, NS) |
| stem form | EZEN4al-li-na-aš-ša | Msk. 74.57 + 74.98 obv. 16 | (CTH 568, NS) |
KUB 25.50 ii 2 is restored from the duplicate KBo 13.167 i 3; cf. Hoffner 1967a: 26 n. 23.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.
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1.1.4Meaning
The underlying lexeme allinašša/i- contains the relational -ašša/i- suffix. It represents a substantivized epithet of a bread, a festival, and a divine name (see under Derivatives), all of which appear to be derived from an unattested base *allina(/i)- (see Hoffner 1974a:150, Laroche 1980a:44, Salvini & Trémouille 2003a:233, Richter 2012a:17); cf. also the substantivized stem allinal(l)a/i- derived from the same base with the suffix -alla/i-.Hoffner 1974a:150 assumes that the lexemes are related to the geographical name ḪUR.SAGAl(?)-li-ni (dat./loc. sg.), but Melchert (DCL:11) argues against the connection, pointing out the geographical distance between ḪUR.SAGAllina- and URUḪapatḫa in the north close to Nerik (for the association of the allinašši-deities with URUḪapatḫa, see KBo 39.48 v 21).
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1.1.5Stem
A stem in -a/i- with i-mutation can be posited on account of the productive suffix -ašša/i-. For the suffixation, see under Meaning. Ünal 2007a:18 cites an a-stem EZEN4allina-, presumably abstracted from the same attestation EZEN4al-li-na-aš-ša from Meskene/Emar.
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1.1.6Origin
Although the origin of the base *allina(/i)- remains unclear, the suffixes -ašša/i- and -alla/i- indicate a transmission via Luwian, cf. Laroche 1980a:44, Yakubovich 2015a, chapter 6.1, DCL:11, Rieken forthcoming. An ultimately Hurrian origin seems to be assumed by Ünal 2007a:18 and Richter 2012a:17.
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*This lemma was written together with Alexandra Daues.