qelidele/i-
‘of the pen (?)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1208
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
qelidele/i-
‘of the pen (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested on the inscribed pillar of Xanthos dated shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | qelideli | TL 44d.38 (Xanthos) | |
| qelid[e]li | TL 44d.50-51 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
The adjective qelidele/i- refers in line 38 to albã ‘?’ and in line 50-51 to pasbu urttu ‘a big sheep’. Considering that it refers to a sheep and that the root qel- relates to the root for ‘encircling’ as in ‘yard’ and ‘precinct’, it is likely that the derivational base *qelid- means ‘enclosure (for sheep), pen’ (cf. Pal. kuwalima- ‘enclosure for sheep (?)’), while the derived adjective qelid-ele/i- would mean ‘of the pen’.For the morphology, see DLL.:126Contra Neumann 2007a:300, the etymological association with Hitt. ḫaliyatalla- ‘guardian’ must be rejected on phonological grounds. Shevoroshkin 2004a:591 compares tentatively the root of qelidele/i- with the one of Lyd. qela- n. ‘yard’, but without the phonological details.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see PAnat. *ku̯el-.