nelede

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.).

[D.S.]

dat./loc. coll.	nelede	TL 44a.34 (Xanthos)
		TL 44a.42 (Xanthos)
		TL 44a.43 (Xanthos)
	ṇeled[e]	TL 44a.19 (Xanthos)

For the interpretation as a noun in the dat./loc. coll., see Eichner 2005a:20 n. 94, Schürr 2009b:111f., Sasseville 2021c:164f.; contra Melchert 2002c:248 (DLL:43) 3sg. pret. “laid down” or Meriggi 1978c:252 “abl./instr.”.

[D.S.]

With Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:145, nelede cannot be convincingly segregated into nele=de (contra Gehrisch 2018a:63, Oreshko 2021a:96, but. cf. on page 126), because the particle =de (or =ede) is restricted to Wackernagel’s position.

[D.S.]

Like other “collective” formations in -ada, the meaning of Lyc. A nelede cannot differ much from its base nele(/i)- ‘agora, settlement’, i.e. nelede should mean something similar. The interpretation ‘agora’ is supported by nelede arñna (TL 44a.19, 34) ‘in the agora in Xanthos’ (Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:144, contra Melchert 2002c:248), where the inscribed pillar is located.

As rightly noticed by Schürr 2009b:111f., nelede in line 42 and 43 must refer to a place just like malijehi ‘in the temenos of Malija’ and an extensive analysis of the passage is presented in Sasseville 2021c, where nelede, denoting a place where the booty was set up in honor of the god of war, is translated with ‘agora’ (contra Gehrisch 2018a:63 “Bundesgebiet” and Oreshko 2021a:96 “acropolis”).

[D.S.]

The formation nelede is a derivative of nele(/i)- ‘agora, settlement’ built with the suffix -ad(i)- or in the coll. -ada (Eichner 2005a:20 n. 94, Schürr 2009b:111f., see already Shevoroshkin 1977b:129); cf. Lyc. A hrm̃mad(i)-, tãmad(i)-.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head, see Lyc. nele(/i)-.