ddelupele/i-

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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acc. pl. c.

ddelupeliz

TL 44d.60 (Xanthos)

The word ddelupeliz is an epithet of lijeiz ‘nymphs’, which must be taken as accusative plural (not nominative plural; contra DLL:114) based on their coordination with the acc. sg. qliju xupeliju ‘the funerary complex of the precinct’.

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Schürr 2018b:66, 75f. divides the word into two, i.e. ddelu and peliz, to recover the ethnicon ‘of Phellos’, which however requires an emendation. Although his suggestion is formally possible (though syntactically awkward), it is not cogent, since the word may be a compound made of *ddele(/i)- (see Neumann 2007a:38f., Neumann 1979b:264) and *upele/i- (cf. Lyc. B uple(/i)-). Differently, Shevoroshkin 2015a:194 divides the word into dde and lupeliz, translating lupeliz as ‘sad, grieving’, comparing CLuw. lu(m)past(i)- ‘regret’. This is also formally possible, but difficult to prove. Gehrisch 2018a:96 suggests dd(e) elupeliz, comparing Lyc. B eluwi (TL 44d.41), which is phonologically unacceptable. Overall, none of the hypotheses can be truly verified and the word is left as is for the time being.

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No semantics are assigned here; cf under Graphic Features.

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