kumehe-

This lexeme is found in various grave inscriptions and on the trilingual of the Letoon dated to 337 BCE.

[D.S.]

dat. sg.	kumehi	TL 84.6 (Sura)
		TL 149.16 (Rhodiapolis)
nom./acc. pl.	kumaha	N 320.22 (Xanthos)
abl./instr. pl.	kumehedi	N 320.27 (Xanthos)

The substantive kumehe- is rendered by Greek ἱερεῖον, τό ‘victim, animal for sacrifice’ in the trilingual of the Letoon (Laroche 1979c:72, DLL:34, Neumann 2007a:176 with further literature, differently Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:136). This is supported contextually for each attestation and especially in the contrast with uwadi ‘cattle’:

kumezidi nuredi : nuredi : arã : kumehedi : se=uhazata : uwadi (N 320.26-27)

‘he will perform every month a rite with a sacrificial animal and a yearly payment with a bovine’.
[D.S.]

Morphologically speaking, kumehe- is a substantivized possessive adjective of kuma-, i.e. *kumahe/i-, in the neuter singular, i.e. *kumehe- (+ vowel harmony). The substantivization is supported by the dative singular form kumehi, which would otherwise be *kumahi, if it were simply a genitival adjective of kuma-; cf. malija- (deity) → malijahe/i- ‘of Malija’ → malijehe- n. ‘temenos of Malija’ (Sasseville 2018a:315).
[D.S.]

For the lemma head see PAnat. *kummo-.