palaraime/i-

This lexeme is found in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

[D.S.]

The word palaraima occurs in a series of adjectives modifying xuzrñta ‘?’ and pertaining to the funerary monument of Gergis, on which the inscription is carved, i.e. qñnãtba : xuzrñta xerigasa : tu[k]adrala : palaraima : spalit(e) epñ ‘…he spali-ed the twelve(?) statuary portrayed(?) xuzrñta of Gergis’. The semantic obscurity of the words in this sentence hinders a proper translation. Meriggi 1937a:514 suggests ‘portrait’ for palara-, i.e. palaraime/i- ‘portrayed’, because of the collocation with tukadrala ‘statuary, pertaining to a statue’ (followed tentatively by Melchert (DLL:123f.), who specifies ‘provided with portraits’). Shevoroshkin 2014a:238, 251 takes palaraima as allative and translates ‘for libations’, which is unsupported. No meaning is suggested by Schürr 2018b:74.

[D.S.]

The formation in -aime/i- could be interpreted as a participle of a non-attested denominative verb *palara(i)-^(di), or as a possessive adjective derived directly from the substantive palara- c.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see Lyc. palara-.