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Abstract
The lexeme 416-wa/i-ní-, occurring in Bronze Age Luvian hieroglyphic inscriptions, was previously interpreted as a royal title. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate that it rather represents a common noun ‘enemy (force)’. The new hypothesis entails a syntactic reinterpretation of a number of Luvian sentences and allows one to arrive for the first time at a cohesive understanding of the SÜDBURG inscription. On the phonetic level, Bronze Age Luvian *aliwanni- ‘alien’ can be now compared with the independently established Iron Age Luvian *alunni- ‘enemy’.
Published Online: 2009-02-16
Published in Print: 2009-February
© Walter de Gruyter 2008
