alcãnalax
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 1237
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
alcãnalax
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
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.).
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1.1.2Forms
| unknown | alcãnalax | TL 44c.60 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The main problem with the word alcãnalax is its formal analysis: Schürr 2001e:132 suggests segmenting it into alcã na lax ‘I did not release the alcã’, comparing Lyc. A na lau (TL 128.2) (followed by Melchert in DLL:112, 199, cf. Schürr 2016d:156, 163). As pointed out by Schürr 2016d:156, the presence of the negation is not assured, since alcãna could be taken as the neuter plural of an n-stem. Moreover, Shevoroshkin Shevoroshkin 2002a:227 mentions that alcãna may be an infinitive, although his semantic assignment ‘to repel’ is unfounded. Finally, there is still the possibility of keeping the sequence alcãnalax as one word and regard it as a factitive *alcãnala-(ti) derived from an agent noun *alcãnala- c. with the meaning ‘to act as an alcãnala’. For the derivational morphology, see Sasseville 2014-2015a:112, Sasseville 2015a:288f. All these possibilities should be considered, until further evidence has surfaced.
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1.1.4Origin
The etymology of the root alc- is strongly dependent on the (etymological) value of the letter c, which is still uncertain; cf. Laroche 1979c:57, Carruba 1999b and Lyc. B lacra, mrccdi.
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