τesa-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 2888
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
τesa-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a metrical inscription that has not yet been dated accurately.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | τesas | LW 12.6 (Sardis) |
An accusative plural is formally possible, but syntactically less likely.
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1.1.3Meaning
On account of the parallelism between LW 12.6 and LW 13.1, scholars try to equate semantically and functionally τesas with ãnaš. Meriggi 1935a:102 compares τesas with Lyc. A teze/i- ‘sarcophagus’ and translates the Lydian word accordingly (partly followed by Gusmani 1961a:190 n. 50). This etymological comparison is nowadays phonologically untenable. Yakubovich (pers. comm.) suggests that τesa- refers to a priestly title because of his translation of the verb luko-(d) used in the following clause (see under lemma).
Pending a solid etymological approach, no meaning can be assigned to Lyd. τesa-.
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1.1.4Stem
Lyd. τesa- is a barytone a-stem.
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