udrma (?)

Attested in an official inscription from Kaunos (4^th / 3^rd c. BCE, Robert 1950a:21).

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udrma

C.Ka 2, 4

The attestation follows Schürr 2010c:194 (cf. also Adiego 2007a:437, checked against the photograph of Frei & Marek 2000a:86), who segmented it from the fourth line of C.Ka 2: [-]nudrmak̑yrpaisarnišsbu[. This line was segmented as [-]nudrma k̑yrpai sarniš sb u[ already by Adiego 2007a:152, 453, which is well supported by the other attestations of the implied words. Schürr’s segmentation of [-]n udrma is theoretically possible, but there is no compelling evidence for that, see under Meaning.

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Schürr 2010c:194 cautiously suggested that udrma is a derivative of uodr, the meaning of which he identified as ‘water’ (see the discussion s.v.). This is formally possible, but only if the r/n-stem of the word for ‘water’ had been levelled in favour of the r-stem in Carian, which is not unknown among the Anatolian languages (cf. e.g. s.v. pawari(ya)- ‘to light a fire’). The main problem is that the content of the inscription and thus, the immediate context of this word are fully opaque. Accordingly, this proposal cannot be independently confirmed.

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