Palaicn.adj.

1921 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 41 197 Forrer finds [in the Boghazköi inscriptions] in addition: Sumerian. Akkadian, ‘Urindisch’, Harrian, Proto-Hittite, Luvian, and Palāic.

1951 E. H. Sturtevant & E. A. 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’.

1972 W. 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.

1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans ii. 27 With our evidence for both Luwian and Palaic so meagre compared with Hittite, it is difficult to ascertain fully how divergent the three languages were.

1950 H. G. Güterbock in V. Ferm Forgotten Relig. 93 Ziparwa, the most important of the Palaic deities, bears a name which is certainly not Indo-European but may be Protohattic, just as the Protohattic goddess Katahzipuri is mentioned in Palaic texts as well.

1966 H. Birnbaum & J. Puhvel Anc. Indo-European Dial. 237 Watkins has..built a very ingenious hypothesis..on the brittle back of the Palaic hapax malitanna-.

1974 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 78 71 Consider the Palaic adjective wašu- ‘good,’ with single s, which seems to be derived from the verb wašš- ‘be agreeable,’ attested in Hittite with double s.

1989 J. P. Mallory In Search of Indo-Europeans ii. 25 They present us with a picture of Anatolia where the Hittites are masters of the central region, the Palaic speakers subservient to their north.