tewẽte
‘opposite, facing’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adpos
- ID
- 1793
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
tewẽte
‘opposite, facing’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the inscription of 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.).
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. (?) | tewẹ̃tẹ | TL 44a.53 (Xanthos) |
The word tewẽte looks formally like a verbal form (cf. Neumann 2007a:354). Although a participial form based on the verb tewe-(ti) ‘to see’ cannot be a priori excluded, Melchert (DLL:64) and Schürr 1998a:153 see a univerbation of tewe ‘eyes’ (see Lyc. tawa-) and n͂te ‘in(to)’, which is very appealing.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
The reading of tewẹ̃tẹ can already be seen in Kalinka 1901a:40-42. Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:22 read tewãt[e] instead, but Kalinka’s reading is confirmed by the photo published in Schürr 2009a:163.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word tewẽte appears between two geographical names, i.e. mukale tewẽte sãma=ti, which can be understood as ‘on the Mykale, which (lies) opposite (the island of) Samos’ (thus Melchert (DLL:64), Schürr 1998a:153, Schürr 2009a:174, Burgin 2010a:181, Sasseville 2021c; contra Stoltenberg 1955a:38 and Gehrisch 2018a:63).
[D.S.]
For the lemma head, see Lyc. tewe-(ti).