teli
‘where’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3180
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
teli
‘where’1.1.1Transmission
This conjunction is found in various types of inscriptions.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | teli | TL 29.3(x2) (Tlos) |
| TL 44a.15(x2) (Xanthos) | ||
| TL 44b.35 (Xanthos) | ||
| TL 58.3 (Antiphellos) | ||
| TL 128.2 (Limyra) | ||
| N 309d.11 (Myra) | ||
| N 320.17 (Xanthos) | ||
| N 348.12 (Aloanda) |
There is one instance of an iterated use teli teli ‘wherever’ at TL 44a.15, which is fronted within the clause. Otherwise, the “enclitic” conjunction teli is placed regularly after the verb like the relative pronoun.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
Carruba 1977a:299, 301 (and Carruba 1978b:177) suggests that Lyc. A teli is a conjunction meaning ‘where’, which has found consensus (left untranslated by Laroche 1979c:68 but followed by Eichner 1985a:18 n. 22, Melchert (DLL:62), Neumann 2007a:346, Schürr 2012a:116f., Christiansen 2020a:246).
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
Lyc. A teli is built on the pronominal stem te- (see Lyc. A ti- as well as teri, tern͂) with the locatival morpheme -li (LIPP II:489).
[D.S.]