qabalime/i-

This lexeme is found once in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

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For the reading qabalimedi instead of **kabalimedi see Schürr 2005a:110f. (followed by DLL:126); cf. Neumann 2007a:158, 296. The reading is likewise supported by our own photo. Gehrisch 2018a:107 still uses the false reading.

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The context in which qabalimedi occurs is obscure. It appears as if three of something have been given for someone’s benefit:

                me=uwe memleje : pri=p̣{:}e trija da{:}te qir:zẽ qabalimedi (TL 55.3)

                ‘For the benefit of Memle (?), they gave three of the qirzẽ with qabalimedi.’

Schürr 2005a:148 suggests an etymological link to the Lyc. A word qebelija, which modifies cattle. This is entirely plausible, but since the meaning of qebelija remains obscure, no semantic assignment for the Lycian B cognate can be given. Shevoroshkin 2012a:467 suggests the meaning ‘(sacrificial) animal’ by comparing likewise Lyc. A qebelija, which is not convincing, because qebelija certainly does not mean ‘animal’.

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Formally, qabalimedi can be analyzed as a participial formation in -ime/i- belonging to a non-attested verbal stem *qabali-^(ti). Since there is no word agreeing with qabalimedi in the sentence, it could have been substantivized; cf. Lyc. B kuprime-.

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No etymology possible.

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