uple(/i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2212
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
uple(/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
| gen. adj.(?) acc. pl. c. | uples!iz | TL 44c.57 (Xanthos) | |
| gen. adj. acc. pl. c. | uplesiz | TL 44d.29-30 (Xanthos) | |
| {uplesiz} | TL 44d.31 (Xanthos) |
Melchert (DLL:133) and Schürr 2018b:84 take uplesiz in TL 44d.29-30 as nom. pl. instead of accusative plural (hesitant Neumann 2007a:405), which we cannot follow, since we take it to be the direct object of the verb ñtuwitẽni.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
The word upleziz is emended here to uples!iz (thus Meriggi 1980a:263,Shevoroshkin 2014a:241, also implied in DLL:133), whereas Neumann 2007a:405 refrains from deciding which of the two forms should be emended.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word uplesiz modifies tuburiz, translated by Sasseville 2021d with ‘vines’.Shevoroshkin 2014a:241 still defends the idea that uple(/i)- means ‘high’ connecting it to a root up- ‘above (?)’ (see also Lyc. A upahe/i- and CLuw. ūpnalla/i-) and positing a derivative in -le/i-. However, since he takes tuburiz to refer to people, he translates uplesiz with ‘noble’, which is not contextually persuasive. The meaning ‘high vines’ is possible, but difficult to prove, especially since it stands as a genitival adjective, expressing possession. Therefore, a morphematic translation would be ‘vines of uple’. For comparanda with personal names in Greek transmission, see Schürr 2014a:745. No meaning is offered by Schürr 2016d:174 or Gehrisch 2018a:83, 91.
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