lijanuwe/i-
‘nymph-like, pertaining to the nymphs’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 1243
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
lijanuwe/i-
‘nymph-like, pertaining to the nymphs’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found once in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. n. | lijanuwa | TL 55.4 (Antiphellos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Against the present reading, the word has been read as pijanuwa (for which see Schürr 2005a:126 with further literature), but the correct reading with l is supported both by recent collations and by the lexical comparison with lijenuwe-. Shevoroshkin 2002a:217 reads pijanuwa, and Gehrisch 2018a:110 reads prijanuwa, which is even less supported by the photo.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
Schürr 2005a:142 interprets lijanuwa convincingly as an adjective derived from lijã(na)- ‘nymph’, agreeing in case, number and gender with [z?]ata in the same sentence. If the restoration [z?]ata is correct, it would refer to deliveries (or payments) pertaining to the nymphs. Differently, Melchert (DLL:120) takes lijanuwa as a collective to lijenuwe- ‘nymphaeum’, which is syntactically less attractive.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
The word lijanuwa is most likely an adjectival formation in -we/i- built on the substantive lijã(na)- ‘nymph’, i.e. lijenuwe/i- ‘nymph-like, pertaining to nymphs’.
[D.S.]
1.1.6Derivatives
For the base of the derivative see Lyc. B lijã(na)-.