šupat(i)-
‘(a sacrificial animal) (?)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- subst, common
- ID
- 1483
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
šupat(i)-
‘(a sacrifical animal) (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription that cannot be dated accurately.
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1.1.2Forms
| gen. pl. | šup̣ạ?ṭaν | LW 44a.13 (Magnesia on Mt. Sipylos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Buckler 1924a:62 reads šup[.]ṭaν. Gusmani 1964a:265 posits even two missing letters, i.e. šup̣[..]ṭaν. Sasseville 2021a:480, using Buckler’s photo of 1924 reads šup̣ạṭaν. Contra Gusmani, only one letter is to be read between p and t and the most likely one if ạ, whose first vertical stroke is still partially visible.
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1.1.4Meaning
Due to its incomplete reading, no meaning was assigned to the lexeme addressed here. From the comparative perspective with HLuw. /suppatt(i)-/, spelled (BOS)su-pa-ti-, which denotes a sacrificial animal, we could assign the same meaning to Lydian šup̣ạ?ṭaν, which would represent a perfect match both phonologically and morphologically. However, the obscurity of the context prevents us from verifying this hypothesis, although the semantic analysis of Lyd. ištamin- would allow for such an interpretation. For a translation of the context, see Sasseville 2021a:480.
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1.1.5Stem
The word šup̣ạ?ṭaν is best taken as genitival plural from a stem in -t(i)- (for the paradigm of Lydian mutated sems, see Sasseville 2017a), i.e. šupat(i)-. On the other hand, we cannot exclude that šup̣ạṭaν is a barytone collective noun, i.e. šupata-.
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1.1.6Origin
For a possible etymology, see under Meaning.
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