km̃qe(/i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 1058
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
km̃qe(/i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found once in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).
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1.1.2Forms
| dat. sg. | ḳm̃q̣i | TL 55.6 (Antiphellos) |
1.1.3Meaning
The word km̃qi is coordinated with erbbi ‘war, battles’, i.e. erbbi=ke km̃qi=ke, which means that it might refer to something similar. Contra Schürr 2005a:141, km̃qi is less likely to mean ‘peace’, which is what the collective noun asata- means. Shevoroshkin 2014a:233 suggests the meaning ‘spoils’ without any concrete reasons and hence not persuasive. Gehrisch 2018a:111 interprets km̃qi=ke as an indefinite pronoun comparable to Lycian A tike, which is phonologically impossible and syntactically unsupported, because the particle =ke belongs together with the preceding =ke; see above. Pending further evidence, no semantic assignment will be given.
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1.1.4Origin
No reconstruction possible.
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