xul-(ti)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1224
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
xul-(ti)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a grave inscription from Sura and on an inscribed altar from Tlos.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. act. | xultti | TL 84.5 (Sura) |
| 3pl. pres. ind. act. | xulñti | N 333.8 (Tlos) |
1.1.3Meaning
Shevoroshkin 1969a:267 compares the Lycian verb xul-(ti) with Hitt. ḫulle/a-(mi) ‘to smash, defeat’ (HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:685-689) and posits similar semantics, although Neumann 2007a:138 points out rightly that the context demands a verb with positive semantics. The inscription TL 84 contains instructions pertaining to the management of a temenos, made by Mizretije, the owner of the grave.
m(e)=ed(e)=i : ñte=xultti : hrm͂mã : pñtbahi : ñtenẽ : xruwi
‘He will xul the temenos of the pñtba in/under the xruwi (vel sim.)’
Whereas Carruba 1977a:286, 298 translates ‘to designate’, Neumann 2007a:138 proposes ‘to protect’. However, all these attempts at translating Lyc. xul-(ti) are mere guesses. The other attestation of xul-(ti) in N 333 seems to occur in a religious context and take two people, a man and his wife as direct object, i.e. tewiθθeimi and his wife θθbãni. However, this depends on the syntactic interpretation of the passage, which is very fragmentary. No translation is given by Melchert (DLL:86) and Gehrisch 2018a:131.
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1.1.4Origin
The etymological link with Hitt. ḫulle/a-(mi) ‘to smash, defeat’ (Shevoroshkin 1969a:267) is tempting from a phonological view point, but is not supported by the contextual interpretation of Lyc. xul-(ti), unless the semantics of the verb were to have evolved tremendously. Therefore, we will refrain from reconstructing the verb here, until further synchronic evidence appears.
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