miyalikšeš
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 535
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
miyalikšeš
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a Palaic festival text preserved on a New Hittite tablet.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. or pl. c. | mi-ia-li-ik-še-eš | KUB 35.163 iii 18 | (CTH 753, NS) |
The use of the sign -eš does not exclude a singular ending of an i-stem; cf. under purtaḫi- and wašuniki-.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
Due to the fragmentary state of the context and the lack of cognates, no semantic assignment can be offered; cf. Carruba 1970a:64. A possible etymological link to the verb *mai-/-iya-(i) ‘to grow’ is possible, but hardly provable based on the current state of the passage.
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