eluwe/i-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 2334
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
eluwe/i-
‘(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
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acc. sg. (?) |
eluwi |
Differently, Melchert (DLL:114) interprets eluwi as dat. sg., which is also possible (likewise Shevoroshkin 2002a:219). The accusative is preferred here on account of the surrounding context, which seems to contain a series of direct objects all depending on the verbal form albaxã ‘I …-ed’. A verbal form of the 1sg. pres. act. in -wi instead of expected -u as per Shevoroshkin 1969a:257 (and Shevoroshkin 2014a:258) is highly unlikely.
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1.1.3Meaning
Shevoroshkin 2014a:258 suggests an etymological connection with Lyc. B alba-, which is possible, but difficult to prove. No meaning has otherwise been given in the dictionaries (cf. DLL:114 and Neumann 2007a:57) and none will be suggested here.
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1.1.4Stem
Melchert (DLL:114) compares the suffix -we/i- in eluwi with the one of Lyc. A xruwe/i-, Lyc. B plluwe/i- ‘from Pinara’. The derivational base remains unknown, although a root of the shape el- or al- should be sought; cf. Lyc. B al(i)-, Lyc. B alba-.
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