ekãnẽ

This lexeme is found on the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

[D.S.]

acc. sg. (?) or gen. pl. (?)

ekãnẽ

TL 44d.16 (Xanthos)

For the grammatical assignment see under Stem.

[D.S.]

Shevoroshkin 1971a:209 (and Shevoroshkin 1977a:143) links ekãnẽ to Hitt. akk-^(ḫi) ‘to die’ and akkātar/n- ‘death’ and translates ekãnẽ with ‘mortals’ (doubted by Melchert (DLL:114)), whereas Gehrisch 2018a:90 translates it with ‘death’. The suggestion ‘necropolis’ advocated by Shevoroshkin 1969a:256 and the translation of ekãnẽ kuprimi as ‘the choice of victims’ (Shevoroshkin 2014a:234) are not attractive, just like many other suggestions in Shevoroshkin 2002a. No meaning is suggested by Schürr 2018b:66. Due to the obscurity of the context, no meaning is advanced here.

[D.S.]

We might be dealing with the gen. pl. of a neuter n-stem ekã(n)-. If this is correct, the direct object of pzziti ‘to declare’ would have to be zini ‘?’ in the previous verse. Instead, it could be taken as an acc. sg. of a non-mutated common gender e-stem, i.e. ekãne-, which would serve as the direct object.

[D.S.]

The lemma was written together with the intern Jonas Döll.