uro?
‘big, great ?’
- Language
- Carian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3302
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Carian
uro?
‘big, great ?’1.1.1Transmission
Hapax in a graffito from Thebes, Egypt (the tomb of Montuemhat) from around the mid-7th c. BCE (during the rule of Psammetichus I).
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg.?? | uro? | E.Th 34 |
The attestation follows Adiego 2007a:430, the inscription is not available in any published photograph or drawing. Adiego 2007a:104 reports about Ševoroškin’s unpublished drawing of the inscription that shows an unidentified sign in the last position and follows D. Schürr’s suggestion (pers. comm.) that it is simply an ‹o›. The grammatical definition is based exclusively on etymological considerations (see under Meaning), since the fully opaque context does not allow any confirmation yet.
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1.1.3Meaning ‘big, great ?’
No meaning is given in Adiego 2007a:430, but formally speaking Carian uro is a regular cognate of Luwian ura- ‘big, great’ (on the final vowel cf. Adiego 2007a:258). Unfortunately, there is no independent evidence for this proposal, since the inscription is incomprehensible.
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