parttala-
‘(a title)(?)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2030
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
parttala-
‘(a title)(?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in an inscription written during the reign of Pttule, a dynast of uncertain identity.
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | parttaḷạ̃ | TL 35.14 (Kadyanda) |
| parttalã | TL 35.16 (Kadyanda) |
1.1.3Meaning
Neumann 2007a:257 takes parttalã rightly as an appellative and not a personal name (thus also Schürr 2014a:755, Gehrisch 2018a:48f.), as was preferred in the earlier literature. Its agreement with kbi ‘another’ renders the interpretation as a personal name unattractive. Melchert (DLL:47) suggests the meaning ‘portion’ without any justification. From a morphological perspective, parttala- represents an agent noun or a professional term in -ala- (see Sasseville 2014-2015a) surely derived from the noun partta- found in the same inscription. Therefore, parttala- could be the person in charge of the partta-. Nonetheless, no semantics can be given as long as the meaning of the base is unknown.
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For the derivational base, see Lyc. A partta-.