*502-mi-li-
‘untouched (?)’
- Language
- Hieroglyphic Luwian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3442
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Hieroglyphic Luwian
*502-mi-li-
‘untouched (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested once in an inscription from Emirgazi dating to the 13th century BCE.
[A.P.]
1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | /…/ | *502-mi-li | EMİRGAZİ 1B, §33b (Emirgazi) |
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1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Unclear except for the stem ending in /°mil(i)-/, although a form similar to the likely Hittite cognate dammeli- ‘new, untouched’ (cf. HEG T:76f.) is possible, but will require more data for corroboration. The sign *502 has so far remained without interpretation because it occurs only rarely and in semantically unclear lexemes, cf. the remarks by Hawkins 1995a:101.
[AH.B.]
1.1.4Meaning
The meaning is assigned only provisionally on a cognate basis, but the word occurs in a context that has yet to be fully understood. EMİRGAZİ 1B, §33b reads: x[...] *502-mi-li LOCUS-ti DARE-tu, approx. /… -mili allanti piyattu/, possibly translating as ‘He shall give … in/for/to a/the *502-mili- place!’ (cf. Hawkins 1995a:88f.). Meriggi (apud Poetto & Salvatori 1981a:51 n. 100) drew a link to Hittite dammeli pedi ‘untouched place’, followed by van den Hout 1995d:562 n. 84 with a translation that certainly fits the HLuw. context, but cannot be deemed secure without additional data.
[AH.B.]
1.1.5Stem
The adjective is derived with the suffix /-il(i)-/; the exact shape of the base remains unknown.
[AH.B.]