arriyal(i)-

The gloss wedge-marked word occurs presumable three times in a cult inventory and once in a small NS fragment of a land donation.

[E.R.]

nom. sg. c.	ar-ri-ia-liš	KUB 57.18 iii 18’	(CTH 527, NS)
unknown	ar-ri-⸢ia⸣(-)[	KUB 51.23 ii 21’	(CTH 527, NS)
	a[r-	KUB 51.23 iii 4	(CTH 527, NS)
	ar-ri-ia-l[a?	KUB 48.83, 8’	(CTH 225, NS)

Due to the fragmentary status of the attestation at KUB 48.83, 8’, its assignment to the lemma remains uncertain. – Even a[r- at KUB 51.23 iii 4 in the same text is an uncertain candidate in view of preceding UDU ‘sheep’, which rather points to the epithet of a sheep, see CLuw. arrazza-.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

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The term remains untranslated in the editions (HW 2nd ed. A:197, Hazenbos 2003a:105, Cammarosano 2021a:157), because the fragmentary attestation does not permit a semantic interpretation. Also, a connection with the word family of CLuw. āriya-^(ti) ‘to carry’ can be excluded on account of the geminate spelling of -rr-. The same applies, for the same reasons, to the connection suggested by Cammarosano 2021a:157 with Hurr. a-(a)-ri-(ia), which is presumably based on the incomplete reading arriya(-) ending like a Hurrian essive form. Even the alleged collocation with ^KU]^Š?⸢A-RI-TAM⸣^(?) ‘shield’ (KUB 57.18 iii 18’ + KUB 51.23 iii 1’) is of no help, since the assumed reading is highly unlikely (instead probably: ]x-⸢a-ri-wa-an⸣-x[).

[E.R.]

If all attestations listed under Forms belong here, the word falls into the class of i-mutated stems. The suffixes -alla/i-, -al(i)-, and -ali(ya)- represent the options for a future morphological analysis.

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If the conclusions drawn under Stem and Meaning are correct, the lexeme is Luwian.

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