lãta-
‘dead’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1050
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
lãta-
‘dead’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in curse formulae of grave inscriptions.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| gen. pl. | lãtãi | N 306.4 (Ҫağman) |
| latãi | N 309d.13 (Myra) | |
| latãi | N 332.3 (Korba) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The potential instance [lãt]ãi adduced by Neumann 2007a:183 in N 304.11 is rather as [mãh]ãi httem̃[ … ] to restore, because the word for ‘gods’ occurs before the participle httem̃ compared to N 306.4 and N 309d.13.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word lãtãi modifies the gods, i.e. mãhãi … lãtãi ‘the gods of the lãta’. Melchert (DLL:35) interprets lãta- as a substantivized participle of the verb la-(ti) ‘to be dead’ (following Carruba 1970b:39). Thus, mãhãi … lãtãi would mean ‘the gods of the dead’, which is an appropriate title for punishing agents of funerary tombs (followed by Eichner 1993b:240 n. 27, Christiansen 2020a:246). For a summary of the outdated literature, see Neumann 2007a:183.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see Lyc. A la-(ti).