*kwri

Reconstructed from a hapax personal name attested in a graffito in Thebes from the tomb of Montuemhat from around the mid-7th c. BCE (during the rule of Psammetichus I).

[Zs.S.]

gen. sg.

kwriś

E.Th 34

The attestation follows Adiego 2007a:376. The reading could not have been checked due to the lack of proper publication. Adiego entertains the idea that the opaque sequence kuariśbar in E.Me 18a (see s.v.) could be segmented as kuariś bar with kuariś in gen. sg. (and thus it would be almost identical to this word, also Schürr 2010c:195 cautiously treats them as identical), but he admits that this idea leaves bar unexplained and this proposal indeed does not shed more light on the inscription. The regularity of the change *kwar → *kwri (see under Meaning) also argues that “kuariś” cannot be identical to kwri.

[Zs.S.]

Adiego 2007a:376 cautiously suggests that the underlying stem is *kwar attested in the personal name kwarś (gen. sg., see s.v., Schürr 2010c:195 cautiously treats them as identical names). This is a perfectly fitting solution if *kwri is a derivative of *kwar in -i- (<*-iya-) showing the same change in the vocalism as mwdon → mday/ýn due to the suffixation. The existence of a derivative *kwari- is independently demonstrated by the Cilician personal name Κουαριμοας (Zgusta 1964a:252 §716). Unfortunately, none of the forms provide any evidence for the meaning.

[Zs.S.]

Last update: 31 August 2020