(-)līlun
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2539
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
(-)līlun
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The form is found in one of the song incipits from the Lallupiya tablet (NS).
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | (-)⸢li⸣-i-lu-un | KUB 25.37 ii 38 | (CTH 771, NS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv. – It is possible, but not assured that a space precedes ⸢li⸣-i-lu-un.
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1.1.4Meaning
The passage is entirely obscure and does not permit a semantic interpretation of the word (see DLL:63, CLL:126, Shevoroshkin 1994a:136, HHw:94).
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1.1.5Stem
Melchert (DCL:s.v.) considers the possibility that līlun does not represent one of the rare u-stems, but is instead a contracted thematic stem in -u(wa)-, i.e. līlu(wa)-. Without further evidence, the question must remain open.
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