trqδimr

Hapax from a probably official inscription from Kildara. The Greek text following the Carian section is palaeographically dated to the 4th c. (Robert 1950a:15).

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nom. sg. ?

trqδimr

C.Ki 1, 2

The attestation follows Adiego 2007:422, checked against the photograph in Robert 1950a:Pl.VIII.1. The segmentation of trqδimr seems assured since it evidently contains the theonym Trqδ (or a derivative of it) and it is followed by qrds, which is otherwise relatively well attested (see s.v.). However, it is unclear whether trqδimr should be further segmented, see the discussion under Meaning. The grammatical definition is based exclusively on the lack of any nominal ending since its context is otherwise obscure.

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Blümel & Adiego 1993a:95 with n. 18 suggested that we are dealing with a compound toponym or theonym (Adiego 2007a:422 adds personal name) consisting of the well-known Anatolian and Carian divine name Trqδ and a second member, either imr- (what they compared to CLuw. im(ma)r(i)- ‘open country’, see s.v.) or mr- (what they compared to Lyc. mara- ‘law’, see s.v.; cf. also Adiego 2007a:422, but here it remains for him a sequence of unknown internal structure, function, and meaning). However, Adiego 2007a:422 rightly pointed out that phonologically regular Carian correspondence of CLuw. im(ma)r(i)- is (i)βr- (see s.v.) and thus, this explanation must be excluded. The problem of the interpretation with mr- ‘law’ is that implies a segmentation Trqδi-mr, which can be interpreted only in two ways: First, as a compound with a derivative of Trqδ, specifically as *Tarḫuntiya-, but there is no evidence for such a form among the very widespread Tarḫunta-names in Anatolia. Second, as a sequence of two independent words, which, however, leads to a form Trqδi, which is not an existing case form of Trqδ and thus, it can only be an -iya-derivative of Trqd.

In other words, the most probable interpretations are: (1) a compound or a sequence of two words, Trqδ(-)imr, with the divine name and with an unknown word and (2) a sequence of two words, trqδi mr, with an adjective from the divine name and with a word that may be connected to the Carian word ‘law’ (which would literally mean ‘the Tarhuntean law’ or ‘the law of the Storm-god’ and which would fit since we are probably dealing with an official inscription).

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