Luviann.adj.

1923 H. R. Hall in Buckler & Calder Anatolian Studies 168 Although until we have the cuneiform texts before us it is quite impossible to control the work of Forrer..yet, whatever we may think at present of his elaborate analysis of the eight languages which he thinks the Hittites or their subjects spoke,..‘Ur-Luvisch’, ‘Luvisch’,..and so on, yet the rough historical results..can no doubt be accepted without demur.]

1924 Cambr. Anc. Hist. II. xi. 253 More [tablets], however, are couched in some six native allied dialects, according to the latest decipherers.., who agree in regarding the dialects as Indo-European... To the six dialects they give the names Kanesian, Luvian, [etc.].

1933 C. D. Buck Compar. Gram. Greek & Latin 15 Closely related to the cuneiform Hittite are the hieroglyphic Hittite and Luwian.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Luian,..an ancient language of the Hittite empire.

1939 L. H. Gray Found. Lang. xi. 324 There are also Hittite inscriptions in pictographic or hieroglyphic characters... Their language may be akin to that seen in the thus far scanty fragments of Luian or Luvian, closely related to Hittite.

1952 O. R. Gurney Hittites i. 18 Other Indo-European dialects (Luwian, Palaic, Lycian, and ‘Hieroglyphic Hittite’) established themselves in other parts of Anatolia.

1961 L. R. Palmer Mycenaeans & Minoans 26 The possibility..that the predecessors of the Greeks were Luvians from western Asia Minor should please both philologists and archaeologists.

1963 L. R. Palmer Interpr. Mycenaean Greek Texts 339 The word [sc. a-ja-me-na] may be a Luvian loan-word (a-ja ‘do, make’) in the sense ‘wrought’. This possibility is strengthened by the fact that kuwana- occurs in Luvian and is held to be the source of Greek κύανος.

1966 J. Puhvel in H. Birnbaum & J. Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 238 This linguistic division of the substrata is indirectly discernible in the divergent Hattic, Kaneshite, and Luwian pantheons within the hospitality of the state cults of the Hittite empire... ‘Hieroglyphic Hittite’ is in reality a dialectal form of Luwian (‘East’ or ‘Late’ Luwian).

1973 K. A. Kitchen in D. J. Wiseman Peoples Old Testament Times 67 Goliath (Golyat) is claimed as a dissimilated form of a Walwatta.., from a Luvian base walwi/a.