τeλmda-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 839
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
τeλmda-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription from Sardis, dated to the 5th or 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./gen. pl. | τeλmdaν | LW 14.4 (Sardis) |
1.1.3Meaning
The context, in which the word τeλmdaν is found, is obscure and fragmentary. No meaning can be offered; cf. Gusmani 1964a:217.
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1.1.4Stem
The word τeλmdaν is interpreted here as an adjective in -da-, which may or may not have been substantivized, for which see Melchert 1990a:206. Its derivational base may have been *τeλm(i)- or *τeλma-.
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1.1.5Origin
No etymology possible.
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