tllaxñta-
‘payment standard’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Class
- Compound
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 304
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
tllaxñta-
‘payment standard’1.1.1Transmission
This compound is attested once in the Letoon trilingual inscription dated to 337 BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| loc. sg. or dat./loc. pl. | tllaxñta | N 320.19-20 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning ‘payment standard’
The word tllaxñta used in a prepositional phrase refers to the amount of money mentioned in the same sentence. Laroche 1974a:124 (and Laroche 1979c:69) assigns the meaning ‘payment’ or ‘salary’ and connects the first member tlla- etymologically to Lyc. A ttl(e)i-(di) ‘to pay’ (followed by Lebrun 1987a:156n. 13, Hajnal 1994a:143, differently Carruba 1977a:303, Gusmani 1979c:230f., Heubeck 1985a:40). Melchert (DLL:68) suggests the precise meaning ‘payment standard’ based on the etymological connection of the second member with Hitt. ḫā-ant- ‘trusted, true’.
However, regarding the second member, i.e. xñta, there could be a connection with the substantive xñta- of uncertain meaning as per Hajnal 1995a:172 n. 227, DLL:68. For the hypothesis that the second member is a preposition instead see Eichner 1983a:54f. n. 44, Hajnal 1994a:143; cf. Neumann 2007a:368.
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