*tidei̯mmo/i-

The lexeme is known only from a single cult inventory so far.

[E.R.]

Checked against the photographs in the Mainzer Fotoarchiv.

[E.R.]

Since Georgiev 1958a:337 and Laroche 1959b:276, the gloss-wedge word is recognized as the etymological match of Lyc. A tideime/i- ‘child’. In its contexts in the cult inventory, it forms a syntagm with anniš, which Cammarosano 2018a:192-195, 204, 467 interprets as the name of the deity represented (‘Nursing Mother’, thus also CLL:228) on account of the structure of the lists: 1 ^NA4zi.kin an-ni-iš ti-ta-i-me-iš (KBo 2.1 i 33, Cammarosano 2018a:192f.) and 1 alam_x munus tuš-aš kù.babbar 1 še-kán igi^ḪI.A kù.s[i₂₂ g]ar.ra an-ni-iš ti-ta-i-im-me-iš (KBo 2.1 i 39f., Cammarosano 2018a:194f.). However, nothing speaks against the concept of a unified deity “the Mother (and) Child”, which would be in accordance with the meaning of Lyc. tideime/i- ‘child’ seen in the closely related Lycian sister language (see Georgiev 1958a:337, Laroche 1959b:276, HW:427, DLL:98, Carter 1962a:61, HEG T:383, Hoffmann 1985a:209, Oshiro 1988c:49, HHw:s.v., Ünal 2007a:719, EDHIL:875, Shevoroshkin 2014a:248; outdated HW 2nd ed. A:81). The respective translations modifying those of Cammarosano are then: “1 stela: the Mother (and) Child” (i 33) and “1 statuette of a woman, in sitting position, of silver, 1 šekan (in height), the eyes inlaid with go[ld]: the Mother (and) Child” (i 39f.). The asyndetic construction confirms the tight bond between the two words and is typical for pairs of kinship names (Martínez Rodríguez 2019b:186f.).

[E.R.]

In form and function, titaimma/i- ‘sucking, suckling, child’ is the lexicalized participle of an unattested verb ‘to lactate, to nurture’, which is most likely to be reconstructed as *tit(a)i-^(di), taking into account also the evidence of titiyāl(i)- ‘lactating, nurturing (?)’ (derivative of the strong stem in *titi-/titai-); cf. Georgiev 1958a:337, Laroche 1959b:276, HW:427, DLL:98, Carter 1962a:61, HEG T:383, Hoffmann 1985a:209, Oshiro 1988c:49, CLL:228, Lehrman 1998a:165, HHw:s.v., Ünal 2007a:719, EDHIL:875, Shevoroshkin 2014a:248, Cammarosano 2018a:204).

[E.R.]

The Luwian origin of titaimma/i- ‘sucking, suckling, child’ is borne out by the combination of the gloss-wedge marking, the root and the participial formant; for references, see under Stem, and van den Hout 2006a:244.

[E.R.]

This lexeme is well attested across the Lycian corpus.

[D.S.]

nom. sg.	tideimi	TL 1.3 (Telmessos)
		TL 3.3 (Telmessos)
		TL 5.4 (Telmessos)
		TL 12.2 (Pinara)
		TL 29.1 (Tlos)
acc. sg.	tideimi	TL 26.4 (Tlos)
		TL 106.4 (Limyra)
		N 320.10-11 (Xanthos)
	tideim[i]	TL 145.2 (Limyra)
dat. sg.	tideimi	TL 4.3 (Telmessos)
		TL 27.3-4 (Düwer)
		TL 27.6-7 (Düwer)
		TL 27.7 (Düwer)
		TL 117.4 (Limyra)
		N 302.5 (Korydalla)
		TL 51.2 (Xanthos)
gen. sg. (unmarked)	tideimi	TL 69.2 (Kyaneai)
nom. pl.	tideimi	TL 107.1 (Limyra)
acc. pl.	tideimis	TL 101.2 (Limyra)
		TL 102.2 (Limyra)
		TL 106.3 (Limyra)
	tidẹịṃis	TL 76.1 (Tyberissos)
dat. pl.	tideime	TL 6.2 (Karmylessos)
		TL 19.3 (Pinara)
		TL 38.6 (Xanthos)
		TL 42b.2 (Xanthos)
		TL 56.3 (Antiphellos)
	ṭịḍẹime	TL 7.3 (Karmylessos)
gen. pl.	[tid]eimẽ	TL 26.10-11 (Tlos)
	[t]idei[mẽ]	N 325.11 (Xanthos)

Only a representative number of attestations are given in the table above.

[D.S.]

Contra Starke 1990a:229, the attestation tidimi (TL 119.3) is to be emended to tid〈e〉imi, and is hence no argument for seeing two different stem classes in the underlying verb (EDHIL:876).

[D.S.]

Saint-Martin 1821a:240-242 deciphered the Lycian word tideimi based on the patronymic formula of the Greek-Lycian bilingual inscription TL 117, in which it is rendered with Greek υἱός ‘son’. Savelsberg 1874a:26 compares tideime/i- etymologically with Greek τιθήνη ‘nurse’, pointing out the reduplication common to both cognates. The meaning of the Lycian word for ‘child, son’ has found consensus and received additional proofs not only from subsequently discovered bilingual inscriptions (e.g. the word is used in the plural in TL 6, N 320.34 and rendered by Greek ἔγγονος), but also from more contexts (Imbert 1894a:494, Laroche 1979c:110, Melchert (DLL:66), Neumann 2007a:359). Whereas the singular denotes only the male child (the female child is expressed by Lyc. A kbatra-), the plural can refer to both, see e.g. N 320.39 (scil. Artemis and Apollo).

[D.S.]

Laroche 1979c:110 sees tideime/i- as a participle of a denominative verb *tid(e)i-^(di) ‘to nurse’, which would be derived from a noun *tide- n. ‘teat’ (thus also Hajnal 1995a:144, Sasseville 2015a:290, Melchert 2018d:28).

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