qetbel(e)i-(di)
‘to invigorate’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1381
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
qetbel(e)i-(di)
‘to invigorate’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found on 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 et al. 1997-99a:19f.).
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1.1.2Forms
| part. acc. pl. c. | qetbeleimis | TL 44c.35 (Xanthos) | |
| part. nom./acc. pl. n. | qetbeleima | TL 44c.64 (Xanthos) |
The form qetbeleimis has the Lyc. A acc. pl. ending -is instead of Lycian B proper -iz.
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1.1.3Meaning
The meaning of the participial form qetbeleime/i- has been elucidated by Valério 2015a:344, who compares CLuw. ḫuitwal(i)- ‘alive’. He reconstructs a non-attested denominative *ḫuitwal(a)i-(di) ‘to make alive, to vivify, to invigorate’, continued in Lyc. B qetbel(e)i-(di) ‘id.’. Phonologically impeccable, this link can also be supported contextually, because the Lycian participle qetbeleimis in TL 44c.35 modifies erẽpliz ‘deities’ (see under lemma). Thus, the Lycian invigorating deities can be formally compared to the Hitt. dInnarawanteš ‘the invigorating deities’. Schürr 2016d:168 fails to mention the progress made by Valerio and attributes no meaning to Lyc. B qetbeleime/i-. Shevoroshkin 2012a:470 assumes rightly that the acc. pl. qetbeleimis denotes a kind of deities, but does not assign any concrete semantics to the word (Shevoroshkin 2012a:28 suggests the meaning ‘victorious’ without any proper argumentation). For a summary of outdated hypotheses see Neumann 2007a:301.
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1.1.4Stem
The participle qetbeleime/i- underlines a denominative verb in -(e)i-(di), i.e. qetbel(e)i-(di) (Hajnal 1995a:151), derived from a non-attested adjective *qetbele/i-.
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