armanaza-

This noun is found in the grave inscription of Ipresida, whose son Ikuwe is the author of the inscription TL 29, which can be dated to the reign of Alexander the Great, thus probably shortly after 330 BCE.

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gen. sg.

aṛmanazah

N 334.3-4 (Tlos)

Publishing the new inscription N 334, Tekoğlu 2002-2003a:107 analyzes armanazah as the title of the father. Since the genitive ending in -h is reserved for personal names in Lycian, Schürr 2010b:124f., taking it likewise as a title, suggests that an apocope has occurred and that the noun is to be interpreted as a later form of *armanazahi. From a morphological perspective, Sasseville 2014-2015a:114 points out that all cases where we have a noun in apposition to the father’s name, it contains either the agent suffix -ala- or -aza-, which supports the hypothesis that these are actual titles and not personal names. If the genitive ending -h is real, it is possible that titles in apposition to personal names in the genitive take the same ending instead of the genitival adjective. Further evidence is needed. Nevertheless, Christiansen 2020a:193 interprets armanazah as a personal name in an asyndetic relation to the father’s name ajẽta..dẹ̃h, implying probably that it represents the name of the mother. Gehrisch 2018a:207 takes armanazah to be the name of the father and leaves the previous name untranslated. Neither of these two perspectives is however convincing.

Concerning the semantics of Lyc. armanaza-, Schürr 2010b:124 n. 17 suggests an etymological connection with Car. armon ‘dragoman, interpreter’, Lyd. armτa- c. and Lyc. B erme-^(di) ‘to announce (vel sim.)’, which is entirely convincing. A tentative meaning ‘dragoman, interpreter’ based on the Carian cognate is posited here.

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The formation in -aza- that builds professions or agent nouns is derived from an n-stem *arman-, which is directly attested in Car. armon-.

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