ḫūwaḫuwanala-

The word is a hapax attested in the Ullikummi myth.

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Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz.

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Within the context, the Sea, a mythological character, asks who is the one that bites and crushes her. The answer is given immediately: It is the malušteya-animal that bites and presumably another animal that crushes her, i.e. the ḫūwaḫuwanala-. However as Puhvel (HED H:428) points out, the word reminds us of the Palaic name of a body part, ḫuwanḫuwani-, which is interpreted as ‘breast’ by David Sasseville (see ḫuwanḫuwani-). The only way to reconcile these two pieces of evidence is to assume that the animal is named after the ‘breast’ as a prominent body part. However, it is necessary to keep in mind that each step of the argument is speculative.
On ḫūwaḫuwanala-, cf. HED H:428, HW 2nd ed.:57, Ünal 2007a:244, DLL:49; differently HEG:327 (see malušteya-).

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The form could either be transferred to an a-stem in Hittite context or is, within Luwian, an original individualizing a-stem (*-eh₂-). In either case, it appears to be based on a derivative in -alla/i- (< *-élo-) of a reduplicated root ḫuwa-ḫuwan-.

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Both the gloss wedges and stem formation allow for the conclusion that the lexeme is Luwian in origin.

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For the lemma head see PAnat. *Hu̯on-Hu̯on-.