*h₂el-i-

This lexeme is found in a grave inscription datable to the reign of Harpagos (beginning of the second half of the 5^th century BCE). It is also possibly attested in a Lycian B compound, for which see treixali.

[D.S.]

acc. sg.

xali

N 310.3 (Phellos)

The word xali is modified by ebẽñnẽ (acc. sg. c.), which is placed in a hyperbaton. Lebrun 1986a:56 casts doubt on this syntactic analysis and prefers seeing xali as a dative-locative and ebẽñnẽ as referring to xupã, which is, however, syntactically and contextually more awkward than the assumption of discontinuous syntax, a phenomenon well attested in Lycian.

[D.S.]

Neumann 1979a:26f. points out that xali… ebẽñnẽ ‘this xali here’ must refer to something present in the eyes of the reader of the inscription. From an etymological perspective with Hitt. ḫāli- n. ‘pen’, he suggests that refers to the place or better the enclosure in which the grave is found (not followed by Lebrun 1986a:56, but followed by Gehrisch 2018a:180). Melchert (DLL:81) takes over the meaning ‘precinct’ (followed by Serangeli 2015b:167), but cast doubt on the etymological connection and prefers adducing only Lyc. xla(i)-^(di) as a cognate. Lebrun 1986a:56 suggests instead an etymological link to Hitt. ḫāli- n. ‘night-watch’ or Luw. /halli(ya)-/ n. ‘day’ without suggesting a concrete meaning for Lycian xali. The etymology by Neumann is accepted here, see under Reconstruction.

[D.S.]

A mutated thematic stem -e/i- is here excluded for Lycian xali, because it should have caused the root vowel to change to -e-, i.e. **xele/i-. Instead, it appears to be a mutated consonantal stem (or even an original i-stem; cf. under Reconstruction), whence the stem is here marked as xal(i)-. For such stems in Lycian, see Sasseville 2018a:315f.

[D.S.]

This lexeme is found on a fragment containing Palaic invocations.

[D.S.]

dat. sg.(?)

ḫa-li

KBo 62.24, 2’

(CTH 754, NS)

Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv). The sequence ḫa-li-pa-a[t(-) ] is interpreted here as ḫali=pa=a[t(-), i.e. a substantive followed by a particle chain.

[D.S.]

The substantive ḫali can be equated with Hitt. ḫāli n. ‘pen (for cattle)’. The context of the Palaic festival does support such an interpretation, since sacrificial animals are treated in their enclosures. Nevertheless, the fragmentary state of the passage calls for caution.

[D.S.]

HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:30f.