lalḫiya-
‘journey, campaign’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 739
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
lalḫiya-
‘journey, campaign’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested once in a NS copy of the Ištanuwa Festival.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | [l]a-al-ḫi-ia-an | KUB 25.39 iv 12 | (CTH 773, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
CLuw. [l]alḫiya- is a hapax from an incipit of a song to be recited in the Ištanuwa Festival. Laroche 1959a:62 was the first to recognize it as a reduplicated cognate of Hitt. lāḫḫa- ‘journey, campaign’. Pointing to its modifying adjective ‘military, he assigned the to [l]alḫiya- the same meaning (‘journey, campaign’), which has been generally accepted (Oettinger 1979a:384, Laroche 1959a:123, HEG L-N:8, Tischler 2008a:101, HED L:5, Starke 1990a:235, EDHIL:510f., differently Yakubovich, pers. comm., who considers a connection with Hittite lahlahhiya- ‘to be excited, be anxious’, see under lemma HLuw. /lalhiliya-/ ‘anxiety?’).
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1.1.5Stem
Following Starke 1990a:63, [l]alḫiya- is a common gender action noun in -a- (without i-mutation). More specifically, it is a formation based on an unattested reduplicated verb *la-lḫ-i(ya)- ‘to travel, campaign’ (Starke 1990a:584, CLL:123; similarly already Laroche 1959a:62: *la-laḫ-i(ya)-).
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For the lemma head seePAnat. *lEH-/*lEH-i̯e/o-.