qereime/i-

This lexeme is found in the poetic inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

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abl./instr.	qereimedi	TL 55.2 (Antiphellos)
		TL 55.7 (Antiphellos)
	[q]{:}erei[m]edi or :〈q〉erei[m]edi	TL 55.5 (Antiphellos)

Shevoroshkin (apud Neumann 2007a:301) restores q]erei[m]edi at TL 55.5, which was already assumed by Melchert (DLL:126) and Schürr 2005a:149. However, Schürr 2005a:122 reads a word divider before the letter e, which would have to be emended either as q]{:}ereimedi or as : 〈q〉erei[m]edi. Contra Gehrisch 2018a:109, who separates qerei and medi into two words translating ‘Xerẽi, the Median’, which does not work at all.

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Scholars agree that qereimedi is a participle of a verb qer(e)i-^(di), modifying nouns such km͂masadi and luwad〈i〉 of obscure meanings. Only in the damaged part of TL 55.5 does it seem to modify tuwẽmedi ‘standing offering’, whose meaning is relatively certain. Nonetheless, without an etymological approach it remains difficult to translate. Shevoroshkin 2002a:230 suggests ‘raided, desecrated’, which is a mere guess. Later, Shevoroshkin 2012a:468 suggests an etymological connection with Hitt. ḫuwarn- ‘to hunt’ and translates qereimedi with ‘with damages’, which does not make any sense.

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No etymology possible.

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