tddãta
‘nourishing, food (?)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3000
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
tddãta
‘nourishing, food (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme, whose exact reading is debated, is found in the grave inscription containing a long biography datable to shortly after the beginning of the reign of Alexander the Great.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. | tddạ̃ta | TL 29.11 (Tlos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
According to Schürr 2001e:135, the reading of the fourth letter is uncertain. Melchert (DLL:61) reads tdd[ẽ]ta. Shevoroshkin 2002a:230 and Gehrisch 2018a:39 likewise read tddẽta. Kalinka 1901a:27 reads t[d]d.[t]a, which is not helpful. Neumann 2007a:341 hesitates between the readings pddẽta and pddñta. Tekoğlu 2006a:1705 notes that the letter ã can still be seen clearly. Tekoğlu 2006a’s reading is the most probable, since we are dealing with a nom./acc. pl. n. and the ending should have colored the previous vowel to ã due to vowel harmony.
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1.1.4Meaning
Gehrisch 2018a:39 assumes that the adposition ñta ‘in’ can be separated from the rest of the word, which is implausible, because an ñ is regularly preserved before a vowel. Shevoroshkin 2002a:230 derives the word from PIE *dei̯- ‘race, chase (?)’ and translates ‘in fights’, which does not work on phonologically grounds. van den Hout 1995b:122, 126 does not give a translation, whereas Schürr 2001e:135 suggests a possible connection to Lyc. B tidñt(i)-, translated here with ‘nourishing (?)’. Based on this comparison, one could suggest for tddãta a substantivized participle ‘nourishing, food (?)’. For further information on the context, see Lyc. A mlu-.
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1.1.5Stem
If the equation with Lyc. B tidñt(i)- is correct, we are dealing with a substantivized nt-stem.
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This lemma was written together with the intern Jonas Döll.
For the lemma head see Lyc. A *tide-.