qrbblala-
‘(title)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Class
- Unclassified
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2016
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
qrbblala-
‘(title)’1.1.1Transmission
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 4th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat. sg. | qrbblali | TL 55.4 (Antiphellos) |
1.1.3Meaning
The word qrbblali can be best interpreted as a professional title in -ala- c. (Sasseville 2014-2015a) derived from the noun qrbble(/i)- (DLL:127, Schürr 2005a:150).Contra Gehrisch 2018a:110, as the outdated etymological relationship with Hitt. ḫarpa- ‘pile’ is no longer phonologically tenable. That qrbblala- is a title could also be further supported by the possibility that it is modified by the ethnicon wesñteli ‘from Phellos’. However, since the sentence is obscure, any claim must be considered very tentative.Shevoroshkin 2011b:148 suggests the meaning ‘libation’, which is not supported in any way.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base, see Lyc. B qrbble(/i)-.