killeterble-

This lexeme is found in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

[D.S.]

acc. sg.

killeterblẽ

TL 55.7 (Antiphellos)

For different word divisions see DLL:118 and Schürr 2005a:143, who do not take the syntax into consideration; cf. under Meaning.

[D.S.]

Hajnal (Hajnal 1995a:157 n. 158) interprets killeterblẽ as a compound instead of two separate words, e.g. kille and terblẽ. This makes the syntax easier to account for, since a dative is already expressed in the singular, i.e. ladi ´for the lady´, and a second dative in the plural, i.e. kille ´payment´, would be difficult to account for (pace DLL:118 and Schürr 2005a:143). Based on the context, killeterblẽ is probably an agent noun, since it is coordinated with ziwalã (title) by the conjunctions ne=ke… ne=ke ‘neither… nor...’.

Melchert (DLL:118) suggests to interpret derivationally the first member *kille- ‘payment’ as the nominal base of the denominative verb attested in Lycian A as ttl(e)i-^(di) ‘to pay’ (redupl.) and Lyc. B *kll(e)i-. This analysis is supported by the compound Lyc. A tllaxñta- ‘payment standard’ with the first member tlla-. Contextual evidence for the semantics of kille- ‘payment’ is found in the verb kiki-^(ti) ‘to cause (sth.) to be paid’ occurring two lines before. The second member of the compound killeterblẽ remains semantically obscure.

[D.S.]

For the first member of the compounds see *kille-.