*tĺk̑at(a)r
‘(a substantive ?)’
- Language
- Carian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- subst, neuter ?
- ID
- 2993
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Carian
*tĺk̑at(a)r
‘(a substantive ?)’1.1.1Transmission
Reconstructed from personal names (and not place names, Adiego 2007a:269, 423, Adiego 2019b:32, contra Janda 1994a:175) attested in Egypt (Memphis and Thebes), from around the mid-7th c. BCE (during the rule of Psammetichus I) until c. 580-560 (Kammerzell 1993a:169, 171).
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1.1.2Forms
| gen. sg. | Tĺk̑atarś | E.Me 41 |
| Tĺk̑ata[r]ś | E.Me 34 | |
| Tl/ĺk̑atarś | E.Th 5 |
The attestations follow Adiego 2007a:423 (with the fully justified restoration of E.Me 34 by O. Masson 1978a:36), checked against the photographs in O. Masson 1978a:Pl. XVI.1, XIX.2 (E.Th 5 is not available in photograph). On the reading of E.Th 5 see Adiego 2007a:97, Adiego 2019b:31, no decision can be made due to the lack of any photograph or scholarly edition. It is unclear whether °atar was the primary form (whence a syncopated °tr) or °atr (whence °atar with an epenthetic vowel).
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1.1.3Graphic Features
On the sign ‹ĺ› instead of ‹ŕ› see Adiego 2019b, esp. 31f., 45f.
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1.1.4Meaning ‘(a substantive ?)’
The former transcription Tŕkat(a)r led Adiego 1992a: 34, Adiego 1994a:43 to suggest a derivation from the theonym Tarḫunta (as the ultimate source accepted by Janda 1994a:175 as well), but later he admitted that this is formally unsuitable, especially in view of Trquδ, the attested Carian reflex of the theonym (Adiego 2007a:423). The new reading Tĺkat(a)r made the differences even more emphatic.
Unfortunately, the new reading has not led to a new understanding of the word underlying the personal name. Although the word resembles Luwian deverbal abstract nouns in -ttar/-ttn-, nothing more can currently be said.
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