xlusa-

This lexeme is found once in the poetical 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).

[D.S.]

acc. sg.

xlusã

TL 55.2 (Antiphellos)

The word xlusa- is the direct object of lelixa ‘(a verb of speaking)’ (Schürr 2005a:158). A connection with Hitt. ḫalluwai- ‘fight’ has been suggested (see DLL:136 and Neumann 2007a:125 with further literature, Shevoroshkin 2012a:471, Gehrisch 2018a:109), but it is difficult to support independently. Moreover, the -s- would remain unexplained. Shevoroshkin 2002c:405 suggests a connection with Hitt. ḫalkueššar ‘crops’, translating xlusã as ‘provisions’, which is morphologically difficult and contextually problematic. In sum, no meaning is assigned here.

[D.S.]