*tubassi-
‘of the hitting or of the fighting/war’
- Language
- Carian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- adj, (substantivized)
- ID
- 325
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Carian
*tubassi-
‘of the hitting or of the fighting/war’1.1.1Transmission
Attested in the name of a Carian god mentioned in a single Greek inscription from 321/320 BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| gen. sg. | Τουβασσιο[ς] |
Attestation following Kızıl et al. 2015a:379, 389 (line 15), checked against the published photograph.
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1.1.3Meaning
Adiego 2015b:408f. interprets the stem phonetically as [tuwa-] and translates the divine name as “de ce qui est placé, appartenant à ce qui est placé” connecting it with Lycian A tuwe- ‘to place (upright)’, Cuneiform Luwian tūwa- ‘to put, place’ (see s. vv.). However, Simon 2016c argues that this proposal is problematic both phonetically and semantically. He suggests instead a stem [tuba-] from the Luwic verb ‘to hit’ and connects it with Hieroglyphic Luwian tù-pa-sa6-ti ‘battle, fighting, war vel sim.’ (abl.-instr., TOPADA §18, see s.v.) that may represent its direct equivalent (if the Luwian word is to be read as tubassa/i- advocated by Simon). Since it is unknown if this semantic change happened in Carian too, the Carian divine name can refer either to a Weather God (‘god of smiting’) or to a War God (‘god of fighting’), which leads to the given two possibilities regarding the original meaning of the word.
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