amatema
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 2297
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
amatema
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a festival text.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| unknown | a-ma-te-ma | KUB 48.53, 9’ | (CTH 753, NS) |
On the one hand, the word amatema can be taken as a nominal formation in -ima- in the locative singular; cf. Pal. kuwalima-. On the other hand, it can be analyzed as amate=ma, i.e. 3sg. pres. act. verb in -ti followed by the particle =ma. This would be supported by the word in the previous line ḫūwāti=ma ‘it walks’, but a verb ama- is not otherwise found. As a third option, a nominal form amati cannot be entirely excluded either. Due to the fragmentary state of the context, none of these hypotheses can be verified.
[D.S.]