()sernitẽ

‘(unknown)’

Language
Lycian A
Grammar
u
ID
1987

1. Individual Anatolian Languages

1.1 Lycian A

()sernitẽ

‘(unknown)’

1.1.1Transmission

A lexeme seṛṇitẽ (TL 20.1) can be found in Melchert 1994a:311, DLL:57 and Neumann 2007a:320, following the readings of Kalinka 1901a:22 (also Friedrich 1932a:57). The new autography by Christiansen 2020a:187f., based on a paper squeeze, shows that the two signs previously read as ṛṇ do not quite fit the traces, and thus she leaves the word as se..itẽ. Furthermore, the cluster *-rn- is not tolerated in Lycian phonotactics and should be -rn͂n- instead. Therefore, it is preferable to mark the word sernitẽ as a probable ghostword.

[D.S.]