ada-

This lexeme is attested mostly in grave inscriptions, but also once in the trilingual inscription of the Letoon, datable to the reign of Pixodaros and more precisely to 337 BCE (Wagner 2011a:156 with further literature).

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nom./acc. coll.	ada	TL 2.3 (Telmessos)
		TL 6.3 (Karmylessos)
		TL 16.2 (Pinara)
		TL 20.4 (Pinara)
		TL 31.6 (Kadyanda)
		TL 36.4, 6 (Xanthos)
		TL 38.8 (Xanthos)
		TL 39.8 (Xanthos)
		TL 41.5 (Xanthos)
		TL 42b.2 (Xanthos)
		TL 47.3 (Xanthos)
		TL 50.2 (Xanthos)
		TL 131.4 (Limyra)
		N 320.19 (Xanthos)
		N 322.4 (Pinara)
		N 334.12 (Tlos)
		N 341.5 (Xanthos)
		N 342a.2 (Tlos)
		N 342b.4 (Tlos)
		N 344.2 (Xanthos)
		N 357.2 (Tlos)
	[a]da	TL 17.3 (Pinara)
gen. coll.	adẽ	TL 4.5 (Telmessos)

Contra Melchert (DLL:1) and Christiansen 2020a:178, adẽ in TL 4.5 is a genitive collective and not a nom./acc. sg. n. Contra Neumann 2007a:2-3, there is no dative plural case ending in -ẽ.

[D.S.]

The word ada is regularly accompanied by a numeral, which is why it was understood from the beginning as a currency unit (Savelsberg 1874a:43, Deecke 1889a:202-207, Bryce 1986a:121f.). Contrary to previous scholarship on the topic, it is now assumed that ada refers to the amount of money to be paid in exchange for the legal provisions in the contract concerning the burial (Christiansen 2020a:218-220 with further literature). Regarding the value of the Lycian ada, it has been argued that 1 ada was equal to 1/12 or 1/15 of a Greek mina (Bryce 1986a:121 with further literature). In translation, the word is simply rendered as ‘ada’.

[D.S.]

The noun ada- is taken here as a plurale tantum or, in other words, as a collective noun. The existence of a neuter singular in -ẽ disappears if one treats adẽ as a genitive collective.

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1. adai(je)-

No etymology possible.

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