ila-
‘passion’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 906
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
ila-
‘passion’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a festival text for the Palaic pantheon.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. | ˹i˺-la-˹aš˺ | KUB 35.166 8’ | (CTH 751, MS?) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
The sequence wāšunikeš ilaš is an epithet of the deities dIlaliyanteš, called dIlaliyantigeš in Palaic. Melchert 1984b:41 analyzes the noun ila- as a cognate of the verb *ilaliya- found in Hittite ilaliya-(mi) ‘to desire’ and translates it as ‘passion’. The substantive ila- c. appears also in Hittite, where it designates some undesirable quality that resides in the heart (cf. HW 2nd ed. I:36f.). Since the sentiments of ‘passion, desire’ can be both positive and negative, it is possible to reconcile the Hittite and Palaic cognates. Thus, the deities of passion, i.e. dIlaliyant-, are called wāšunikeš ilaš ‘beneficent passions’. Outdated Kammenhuber 1959a:61, Carruba 1970a:57.
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1.1.5Derivatives
- dIlaliyantigeš (DN)
1.2 Hittite
ilā-
‘passion, desire (?)’1.2.1Literature / Comments
Melchert 1984b:41, HW 2nd ed. I:36f.; cf. HED E, I:355, HEG I-K:353.
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction ‘passion’
Based on Hitt. ilā- and Pal. ila- c. ‘passion’ (Melchert 1984b:41), it is possible to reconstruct a Proto-Anatolian substantive *ilo- c. or *ilaH- c. (a root vowel *e, i.e. *el-, which becomes -i- in Hittite and Palaic when unaccented, is also possible, although if Luwian were to show the root *il-, then a reconstruction with *ĕ vocalism would no longer be possible, only *ē). What appears to be a reduplicated formation can be found in derivatives such as Hitt. ilāliye/a-(mi) ‘to desire’ (HEG I-K:354), the deities dilāliyant- c. and the tentative Palaic derivative ilāliya-x-. However, an analysis as a nominal suffix chain seems equally likely, so that the verb ilāliye/a-(mi) could be a denominative verb in -iye/a-(mi) derived from a non-attested base *ilal- (< *il-ó-lo-).
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