hberus-

This word is found once in a grave inscription of Rhodiapolis.

[D.S.]

dat. sg.(?)

hberuse

TL 150.8 (Rhodiapolis)

Carruba 1968a:20 (followed by Neumann 2007a:91f.) separates hberuse into (e)hbe (e)ruse in an attempt to read the possessive pronoun in the dative plural followed by a noun eruse. This is syntactically improbable, because the possessive pronoun regularly follows the head noun.

[D.S.]

The noun hberuse appears after the personal name xssẽñzijaje inflected in the dative singular. Melchert (DLL:23) analyzes hberuse as dative singular and points out that the two nouns, i.e. hberuse and xssẽñzijaje, which appears to stand in apposition to one another may not be so. Instead, they could be taken as two independent datives, or one dative and one locative. Hajnal 1995a:133 mentions the possibility of interpreting hberuse as dative/locative plural. Schürr 2017-2018a:266 interprets hberuse as a dative singular in apposition to the personal name xssẽñzijaje and argues that Lycian s-stems have a dative singular in -s-e, while the dative plural form would lose the -s- of the stem and show only -e. As long as the meaning of hberuse is unknown, its exact role in the sentence remains debatable.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see PAnat. *su̯er-.