τaλala-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- subst, common
- ID
- 1286
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
τaλala-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription from Sardis that cannot be dated accurately.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. (?) | τaλalaν | LW 13.8 (Sardis) |
It is likely to be the direct object of the verb fasfẽni- ‘to own’ and modified by aνatν. Otherwise, it could be taken as a genitive plural dependent on the following word aνatν.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
If it is an agent noun in -ala-, τaλalaν could denote a person ‘the one pertaining to the τaλa-’. Without an etymological approach, no meaning can be offered for the moment; cf. Gusmani 1964a:217.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
The word τaλala- could be either a possessive adjective in -l(i)- (though only if it is in the dat./gen. pl.) or an agent noun in -ala-, for which see Sasseville 2014-2015a:117f. The latter is adopted provisionally.
[D.S.]
For the likely derivational base see τaλa-.