tewinaza-
‘(title)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 1795
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
tewinaza-
‘(title)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a grave inscription.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | tewinaza | N 306.1 (Ҫağman) |
1.1.3Meaning
The word tewinaza denotes the title of the owner of the tomb. Lebrun 1999a:53 suggests the meaning ‘seer’, considering the etymological link to the word for ‘eye’ (see Lyc. A tawa-). The HLuw. comparison with ta4-wa/i-ni- (thus DLL:64, Melchert 2003a:181 n. 12) is no longer tenable, see Rieken & Yakubovich 2010a:201. Heubeck 1989a:46, Gehrisch 2018a:175 and Christiansen 2020a:244 leave tewinaza untranslated. Despite the attractive suggestion of Lebrun, the semantics of tewinaza- cannot be contextually verified, and it is therefore left untranslated here as well.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
The word is an agent noun formation in -aza- derived from a base *tewin-. It is tempting to see a verbal suffix *-in- (corresponding to CLuw. -ina-(i)), derived from the root verb tewe-(ti) ‘to see’. For other etymological suggestions that do not yield any satisfying results, see Neumann 2007a:354 and Gehrisch 2018a:175f.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Derivatives
- Tewinezẽi (PN) (Christiansen 2020a:267 with further literature)
For the possible derivational base, see Lyc. B tewe-(ti).