†meniyalla/i-
‘(ghost word)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 807
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
†meniyalla/i-
‘(ghost word)’1.1.1Transmission
The word is attested exclusively in a single NS copy of the OH Ištanuwa festival.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | x-x-ni-ia-al-li | KUB 25.39 iv 2 | (CTH 773, NS) |
Following CLL:148, x-x-niyalli is regarded as a nominal form in the dat./loc. sg. It is probably an attribute of either the preceding or the following dat./loc. sg. form.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz. Contra Starke 1985b:329 and CLL:148, the reading of the initial part of the line as ˹me˺- is highly doubtful. Rather than a single me- with a stretched horizontal, the remains suggest there to be two signs (1 LÚ, GIŠni or something entirely different). Therefore, the previously suggested meniyalli is now considered a ghost word.
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1.1.4Meaning
The context is ill-understood and does not permit any conclusions regarding the meaning of the word.
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1.1.5Stem
The word is obviously a stem in -alla/i-.
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1.1.6Origin
No reconstruction possible.
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