aλẽλ[

This perhaps incomplete word is found in a metrical inscription that has not been dated accurately.

[D.S.]

Buckler 1924a:62 does no attempt to read the last letter, which is broken off, i.e. aλẽ.[. Vetter 1959a:57 n. 23, however, restores aλẽλ̣^?[ probably based on Buckler’s photo, where the letter λ would fit the traces of the damaged sign. Furthermore, he restores the vowel -o-, i.e. aλẽλ̣^?[o.] (followed by Gusmani 1964a:56, 265 and Melchert 2001e), since every line of the poem ends with a syllable in -o-. Vetter also restores the ending -l, i.e. aλẽλ̣^?[ol], to match the verb fasaknakil, with which it is coordinated by the disjunction puk (thus also Brandenstein 1931b:54). This all depends, of course, on whether the following syllable is the last one, and Gusmani 1964a:265 n. 44 points out rightly that the lacuna could be bigger. Overall, the status of this word must be treated carefully until further evidence is found.

[D.S.]

An etymological connection to Lyd. aλa- ‘other’ has been suggested by Vetter 1959a:57 n. 23 and compared to the Latin verb alienare ‘to alienate’, assuming a verbal derivative (provisionally accepted by Gusmani 1964a:56). This is possible but, since the word is broken off, very tentative.

[D.S.]