hrixuwãma-
‘the supervising one (vel sim.)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2081
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
hrixuwãma-
‘the supervising one (vel sim.)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a grave inscription.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | ḥrix̣uẉama | TL 80.3 (Antiphellos) |
Melchert (DLL:86) takes the ending -a (instead of expected -i) to be analogical to the head noun Malija, thereby suggesting secondary vowel agreement. A different approach would be a substantivization in -a- c. (for the “individualization”) of the participle xuwãme/i-, but this is not provable, as long as we do not find further examples of participial formations in -me/i- being substantivized with the common gender suffix -a-. Contra Neumann 2007a:99, who posits an action noun in -ma-.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
For the outdated reading erijup̣ama of Kalinka 1901a:66, see Neumann 2007a:99 with further literature, Melchert 2001f, Schürr 2013c:27.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The word hrixuwama is found as an epithet of the goddess Malija-Athena. It consists of the preverb hri ‘high, up’ and the participle of the verb xuwa-(ti) ‘to stand close to, attend’. Melchert (DLL:86) translates the epithet with ‘super-intending’ (followed by Shevoroshkin 2012a:465, Christiansen 2020a:230), whereas Serangeli 2015a:382 translates ‘the supervising/protecting one’; cf. also García Ramón 2016a:74 for various meanings derived from the etymological link with Hitt. ḫuwāi-/-i(ya)-(ḫi) ‘to walk, run’. Gehrisch 2018a:126f. prefers the meaning ‘assisting’. The general sense of the epithet is understood, even though the exact translation may vary.
[D.S.]
For the second member of the univerbation, see Lyc. A xuwa-(ti).