lẽ
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 2242
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
lẽ
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested 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
| unclear | ḷẽ | TL 44d.27 (Xanthos) |
It is unclear whether the word is a noun in the acc. sg. c. or n. or perhaps an adverb; cf. Lyd. lẽν.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
The old reading ḷ is kept in Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:25, Neumann 2007a:186 and Schürr 2018b:62. Melchert (DLL:120) takes lẽprija as a full word in the nom./acc. pl. n., whereas Shevoroshkin 2014a:252 instead takes lẽprij as a full word (thus also Gehrisch 2018a:91) in the acc. sg. c., translating it with ‘heat (?)’ on etymological grounds, which is syntactically less attractive. It is here taken as an independent word followed by the preverb prij (CLuw. parī, Lyd. pλ) and the verb asxxa ‘I made’. The existence of a full word lẽ might be further supported by Lyd. lẽν.
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1.1.4Meaning
No meaning is suggested here.
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