mesijas
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 1720
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
mesijas
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a grave inscription with a long biography datable to the reign of Alexander the Great.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| unclear | mesijas | TL 29.12 (Tlos) |
It is difficult to interpret this word; it might be a complete word in the acc. pl. (DLL:39) or a nominative singular in -as- (for these s-stems, see lately Schürr 2017-2018a). Furthermore, one could separate me=sijas and take sijas as a substantive, but a separation as me=s(e)=ijas as per Gehrisch 2018a:39 is not possible, because there is no enclitic **=se and the (proclitic) sentence introductory particle se appears in complementary distribution with me.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
The sequence mesijas appears after se=trm͂misñ xalte ‘he ruled over Lycia’. The rest of the sentence is not well preserved, so that any interpretation regarding mesijas must be considered highly tentative.
[D.S.]