qrbble(/i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Class
- Unclassified
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2017
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
qrbble(/i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
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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1.1.2Forms
| dat. sg. | qrbbli | TL 44d.1 (Xanthos) | |
| TL 44d.26 (Xanthos) | |||
| abl./instr. | qrbḅledi | TL 44d.2-3 (Xanthos) |
Despite the doubts expressed in DLL:127, the dative singular case for qrbbli is the most probable option in each of the two contexts; cf. Schürr 2018b:79.
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1.1.3Meaning
The noun qrbble(/i)- occurs in a sacrificial context. The old comparison of Korolev & Shevoroshkin 1969a:532, 539 n. 30 with Hitt. ḫarpa- ‘pile’ is phonologically outdated, since the Lycian sound q goes back to either *Hu̯ or *ku̯ (the latter only before back vowels); see Kloekhorst 2008a and Sideltsev & Yakubovich 2016a. Shevoroshkin 2014a:250 (also Shevoroshkin 2012a:469) suggests the meaning ‘mug, goblet (?)’, which is a mere guess. Gehrisch 2018a:90 translates the word with ‘altar’, which is contextually possible, but not cogent. Pending a stronger etymological approach, no meaning is assigned here to Lyc. B qrbble(/i)-.
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1.1.4Stem
It is unclear whether the word is a mutated common gender noun or a neuter e-stem.
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