allinal(l)a/i-

The noun is attested twice with the ideogram MUNUS(.MEŠ) in a votive text, and once in a festival for Teššup and Hebat (CTH 698). The assignment of a further attestation with initial plene writing from a fragment of a festival for Ḫuwaššanna (CTH 694) is based on a new reading, see under Graphic Features. It is also attested as a divine name ^DAllinališ.

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Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – The reading al-li-⸢na⸣-liš at KUB 27.13 iv 13’ follows Richter 2012a:17. – KBo 60.99 iii 10’ + KUB 15.11 iii 10’ clearly shows the reading ^MUNUSal-li-na-ra-liš. It was corrected to ^MUNUSal-li-na-al^!-liš as suggested by ^MUNUS.MEŠal-li-na-li-za in the following line (ibid. iii 11’), contra de Roos 2007a: 111 with KUB 15.11 iii 10’: ^MUNUSal-li-na-ra-liš, iii 11’:  ^MUNUS.MEŠal-li-na-〈ra〉-li-za) and Beal 2014a:344.

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The meaning of the lexeme remains unclear. CHD Š:451 cites and translates the most informative attestation in CTH 584 as follows: nu=za ANA DINGIR-LIM kuit [ … / o-o ]x ^MUNUSallinalliš ešun / [nu=za] ^MUNUS.MEŠallinalliza (!coll.) še-eš-ḫa-aḫ-ḫi “Because I was an allinalli-woman to the goddess [ … ], I will choose the allinalli-women, ([and] I will give t[hem] to the goddess, my Lady)” (cf. KBo 60.99 iii 9’-11’ + KUB 15.11 iii 9’-11’).Hoffner 1974a:150 following Otten & von Soden 1968a:28, HW 2nd ed. A:59 connects the topographic term ^NA4ḫekur allinališ (KUB 27.13 iv 13’) to the oronym ^ḪUR.SAGallina/i-, cf. also del Monte & Tischler 1978a:8, van den Hout 1995a:214. This proposal is to be rejected on account of the geo­graphical distance, as pointed out by Melchert (DCL:11). 

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The stem allinal(l)a/i- with the Luwian adjectival suffix -alla/i- as well as the noun allinašša/i- ‘(a type of bread)’ with the Luwian suffix -ašša/i- probably go back to an otherwise unknown base *allina(/i)-. The divine name ^Dal-li-na-li-iš (KUB 38.12 iii 9, cf. Hoffner 1974a:150, Cammarosano 2018a:424f., 430 with references) appears to feature the same base.

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Although the origin of the base *allina/i- remains unclear, the Luwian suffix -alla/i- and the Luwian common plural ending in -inza point to a borrowing from Luwian; cf. CHD Š:451, DCL:11, Yakubovich 2015b, chapter 6.2, Rieken forthcoming. See also allinašša/i-.

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*This lemma was written together with Alexandra Daues.