uhazit(i)-
‘end of the year (?)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2480
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
uhazit(i)-
‘end of the year (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in the inscription of a stele dated tentatively to the second half of the fifth century BCE based on the name Xezixa, who can be identified as the uncle of the ruling dynast Xeriga (Gergis), or to a later ruler named Pttule found also in inscription TL 35.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg.(?) | ụ[h]ạziti | TL 65.14 (Isinda) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The word ụ[.]ạziti is restored as ụ[h]ạziti, in order to recover the word for ‘year’ as the first member of the compound (Shevoroshkin 1979a:189, DLL:76, Neumann 2007a:401).
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning ‘year’s interval’ was attributed to uhazit(i)- based on the assumption that the second member of the compound, zit(i)-, meant ‘time, interval’ (Shevoroshkin 1979a:189, DLL:76). Considering the new evidence that Lycian A zit(i)- means ‘end’, the compound uhazit(i)- is here translated tentatively as ‘year’s end, end of the year’ instead. Since the context is fragmentary, neither semantic assignment can be verified.
[D.S.]
For the second member of the compound, see Lyc. zit(i)-, but for the first, see Lyc. A uh(i)-.