mãna (or mãma)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 2633
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
mãna (or mãma)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme was restored thanks to the joining of a fragment made by Schürr & Dönmez 2015abelonging to the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. or coll. | mãṇ/ṃa | TL 44b.41 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:141f., 143 hesitate between reading mãṇa or mãṃa and take the following hm̃mãta as one segment, i.e. mãṇ/ṃahm̃mãta (comparing the personal name mam̃maha-), which is morphologically unlikely. Furthermore, to assume a personal name based only on the ethnic(?) adjective(?) qarazutazi in the same sentence does not represent a reliable analysis. Separating mãṇ/ṃa from hm̃mãta, i.e. a participial form belonging to the Lycian verb hm̃me-(ti) (as suggested in Schürr & Dönmez 2015aibid.), provides a more satisfactory interpretation of the passage. In that case, mãṇ/ṃa may be a substantive in apposition to (e)rawazija ‘memorials’ and thus refer to something built that is both hm̃mãta ‘?’ and aruwãtija ‘high, sublime’. Pending a solid etymological approach, no semantics are assigned here.
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