bijase (?)
‘(a substantive)’
- Language
- Sidetic
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, unknown
- ID
- 1649
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Sidetic
bijase (?)
‘(a substantive)’1.1.1Transmission
Hapax in the so-called Longer Strategos Votive Inscription of unknown date (see the discussion s.v. śa) from Side, if it exists, see the discussion under Form.
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1.1.2Forms
Genitival adjective:
| gen. pl.? | bijase | S3, 3 |
The attestation follows Pérez Orozco 2007a:138f. checked against the photographs in Darga 1967a:Res. 8 (= Neumann 1968a:Taf. I.2 = Brixhe 1969a:Planche II) and Zinko & Zinko 2019a:426 Fig. 21.5. Most of the scholars segment opebijase from the completely opaque sequence ewśako3pebijaseñnebarśaka (Neumann 1968a:91f., Neumann 1978b:874; Ševoroškin 1975a:163f.; Eichner 1993a:127; Nollé 2001a:635f.; Zinko & Zinko 2019a:421) based on the observation that °ase is identical to the ending of jewase and abase (see s.vv.) and thus, presumably a gen. pl. Pérez Orozco 2007a:136, 139 went one step further and segmented ope ‘después, detrás’(cf. Luwian āppan ‘behind, after’), but left bijase unexplained. Since his solution is formally fitting, it is followed here, too.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
On the reading of the first sign as ‹b› see the discussion s.v. *tbi?at. Although this reading is accepted in Zinko & Zinko 2019a:429f. (cf. also Zinko 2016a:361), in the same paper they leave this question open (422) and spell this specific word as opek/bijas2e (421).
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1.1.4Meaning ‘(a substantive)’
Eichner 1993a:128 saw in opebijase an adverb(ial phrase) and translated it as “für spätere Zeiten” (as an “unverbindlicher Übersetzungsvorschlag”). Nollé 2001a:635 described this as a “phantasievolle Übersetzung”. According to Zinko & Zinko 2019a:421, this is an adverb with “eine Pluralendung (…) die in opek/bijas2e als Adverbialform vorliegt”. Based on the cases of jewase and abase (see s.vv.), we are dealing with the gen. pl. ending of a genitival adjective and thus, with a substantive and not with an adverb. However, any further hint to its meaning is missing (if the segmentation of Pérez Orozco is correct, it implies that bijase shows apocope [since initial voiced consonants are secondary in the Anatolian languages], which is not unattested in Sidetic, but it does not help to determine the meaning).
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