*iβreλ
‘pertaining to the open country’
- Language
- Carian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2064
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Carian
*iβreλ
‘pertaining to the open country’1.1.1Transmission
Reconstructed from a Carian compound personal name attested in Memphis (a limestone plaque of unknown date, O. Masson 1978a:43f.) and also in Greek transmission as Ιμβαρηλδος from the 5th/4th c. (LGPN V.B:213, cf. Zgusta 1964a:198 §467; Blümel 1992a:15; on the identification see Carruba 1980a:281; Adiego 1990b:600, Adiego 1992a:35, Adiego 1994a:36f., Adiego 2007a:393; Schürr 1991-1993a:163, 167), that shows a secondary stem Imbar-, see the discussion s.v. *iβrsi.
[Zs.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| gen. sg. | (para)iβreλś | E.Me 47 |
The attestation follows Adiego 2007a:393 checked against the photograph of O. Masson 1978a:Pl.XXIII.1.
[Zs.S.]
1.1.3Meaning ‘pertaining to the open country’
Adiego 1990b:600, Adiego 1992a:35, Adiego 2007a:335,393 identified the underlying stem with Cuneiform Luwian im(ma)r(i)- ‘open country’ (see s.v.) and *iβreλ itself with Cuneiform Luwian im(ma)ralla/i- ‘pertaining to the open country’ (see s.v., the identification was proposed already by Carruba 1980a:281 based on the Greek form, extended by Schürr 1991-1993a:172f. on the Carian name [but Schürr 2001d:105 suspects a personal name suffix in the word, without providing any details]). This is a both formally and semantically fitting solution, for further discussion see s.v. *iβrsi.
[Zs.S.]