hrkkele/i-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 490
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
hrkkele/i-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a dedicatory inscription of Arbinas, whose reign is dated approximately to the beginning of the 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | hrkkeledi | N 324.11 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
Bousquet 1992a:184 compares hrkkeledi to the personal name Hercules, which is otherwise attested as erikle-. Therefore, the comparison is not persuasive. No semantic interpretation is offered in Neumann 2007a:100 and DLL:25. Despite the broken state of the passage, it seems likely that hrkkeledi modifies xahadi ‘with a hearth’. Thus, it can be interpreted tentatively as an attribute of a hearth.
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1.1.4Origin
No etymology possible.
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