marazi(je)-
‘of the judge, (subs.) court’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 227
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
marazi(je)-
‘of the judge, (subs.) court’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is only attested in sepulchral inscriptions from Limyra.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. pl. n. | marazij[a] | TL 118.3 (Limyra) |
| [ma]razija | TL 139.4 (Limyra) | |
| [ma]r[az]ị[ja] | TL 135.3 (Limyra) |
1.1.3Meaning ‘tribunal, court’
After the semantic elucidation of Lycian A mara- ‘law’ and maraza- ‘judge’ through the trilingual inscription, marazija was convincingly interpreted as ‘tribunal’, ‘judgment’ or ‘court’ (cf. Carruba 1977a:312, Laroche 1979c:98, Heubeck 1982a:110, Hajnal 1994a:164, Schürr 1997c:131, DLL:37, Melchert 2015c:158).
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
Lycian marazi(je)- is an adjective in -i(je)- derived from the substantive maraza- ‘judge’. All attestations listed above are cases of substantivization in the neuter plural or in the collective (Melchert 1992b:48, Hajnal 1994a:164,DLL:37). For an overview of outdated hypotheses see Neumann 2007a:195.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base see maraza-.