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Palaic, n. and a.|pəˈleɪɪk| [f. Pala, appar. a district of Asia Minor + -ic.] A. n. The name of an Anatolian language, known from the Hittite archives. B. adj. Of or pertaining to this language.
1928C. Dawson Age of Gods xiii. 302 The Hittite archives also refer to three other tongues, Luvian, Palaic, and Harrian or Churrite. 1951Sturtevant & Hahn Compar. Gram. Hittite Lang. (ed. 2) I. i. 5 In the ritual of the deity Ziparwas certain passages are to be spoken Pa⁓la-um-ni-li ‘in Palaic’. 1966Birnbaum & Puhvel Anc. Indo-Europ. Dial. 237 Watkins has..built a very ingenious hypothesis..on the brittle back of the Palaic hapax malitanna. Ibid. 243 Among verb stems, Luwian, Hieroglyphic, and Lycian -s(s)- contrasts with the Hittite and Palaic ‘iterative’ -sk-. 1972W. B. Lockwood Panorama Indo-European Lang. 263 Palaic was spoken in an area to the north of Hattusa, say in the province later known as Paphlagonia. It occurs solely in interpolations in the Hittite text in connection with the cult of the god Ziparwa. 1973Trans. Philol. Soc. 1971 159 The Palaic particle, unlike the Lycian one, is connective and adversative. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia I. 834/1 An interrogative or relative pronoun kui- (compare Latin quis) is common to Hittite, Palaic, and Cuneiform Luwian. |