wol(i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2708
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
wol(i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription (LW 13), which has not been dated accurately, although the use of the letter y speaks for an early dating perhaps second half of the 6th century BCE (see Euler & Sasseville 2019a:129). The other attestation is also found in a metrical inscription, which, however, has not yet been dated accurately.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | wolν | LW 13.12 (Sardis) | |
| wol(ν) | LW 44b.5 (Magnesia on Mt. Sipylos) |
Meriggi 1935a:107 recognized wolk[ (LW 44b.5) as a second attestation of the acc. sg. wolν, i.e. wol(ν)=k (followed by Gusmani 1964a:227).
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1.1.3Meaning
The word wolν is the direct object of the verb kipτa-(d) ‘?’. Without an etymological approach, nothing about the semantics of wolν can be said (pace Meriggi 1935a:107). It is also left untranslated by Gusmani 1964a:227.
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1.1.4Stem
Brandenstein 1931b:58 attributed to wolν a stem in -(i)- based on the suffix -l(i)-. For the Lydian paradigm of i-mutation, see now Sasseville 2017a.
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