plqqa
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 704
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
plqqa
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a grave inscription dated to the reign of Perikle (first half of the 4th century BCE.).
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1.1.2Forms
| loc. sg. c. or nom./acc. pl. n. | plqqa | TL 104c.2 (Limyra) |
1.1.3Meaning
The context in which plqqa is found is badly preserved.Schürr 1991-1993a:170 compares Lyc. plqqa to the Carian personal name plqo and Πελεκως found in Greek transmission. Although the comparison is very convincing, it does not guarantee that Lyc. plqqa is a personal name (contra Neumann 2007a:277, Schürr 2012b:21). It could simply represent the appellative upon which the personal names are built. No semantic assignment possible.
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1.1.4Origin
The suggestion of connecting Lyc. plqqa with Hitt. palḫi- (HEG P:394 and Neumann 2007a:277) is not phonologically supported, because q- is labialized. Outdated Shevoroshkin 1969a:264. No reconstruction possible.
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