*uqsi
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Carian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 2423
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Carian
*uqsi
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
Reconstructed from a tomb-stela inscription from Memphis, c. 585-550 (Kammerzell 1993a:169, 171).
[Zs.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | uqsi | E.Me 20 |
The attestation follows Adiego 2007a:430, checked against the photograph in O. Masson 1978a:Pl.IX.1.
[Zs.S.]
1.1.3Meaning ‘(unknown)’
Adiego 2007a:430 cautiously suggested (with a question mark) that it may perhaps be only “a simple graphical variant” of uksi (see s.v.). This can be, however, excluded from a graphical point of view and from a phonological point of view there is no evidence for a k ~ q vacillation in Carian. Accordingly, the meaning of this word is currently unknown.
[Zs.S.]