lada-
‘wife’
- Language
- Lycian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3396
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
lada-
‘wife’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is one of the best attested Lycian nouns and is found in a large number of Lycian inscriptions.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | lada | TL 58.3 (Antiphellos) |
| TL 107a.1 (Limyra) | ||
| TL 110.2 (Limyra) | ||
| acc. sg. | ladã | TL 84.3 (Sura) |
| TL 75.3 (Tyberisos) | ||
| TL 94.1 (Myra) | ||
| ladu | TL 91.2 (Myra) | |
| TL 93.2 (Myra) | ||
| dat./loc. sg. | ladi | TL 3.3 (Telmessos) |
| TL 15.3 (Pinara) | ||
| TL 29.2 (Tlos) | ||
| nom. pl. | ladãi | TL 107a.1 (Limyra) |
| acc. pl. | ladas | TL 83.8 (Arneai) |
| dat./loc. pl. | lada | TL 6.2 (Karmylessos) |
| gen. adj. nom. pl. c. | laθθi | TL 83.14 (Arneai) |
Only a representative set of attestations are given in the table above. Per Melchert (DLL:35) the gen. adj. form laθθi (< *ladahi) is substantivized to mean ‘in-law (of husband)’.
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1.1.3Meaning
The meaning ‘wife’ for Lyc. A lada- has been securely established and completely consensual since the 19th century (thus in e.g. Imbert 1894a:454f., Torp 1898a:11, Thomsen 1899a:61, Hrozný 1917a:49 n. 1, Meriggi 1936b:268, Kretschmer 1943a:91 n.1, Pedersen 1945a:35, Laroche 1974a:121, Carruba 1991a:173f., Hajnal 1994a:149, Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:64, Gusmani 2002a:349, DLL:34, Neumann 2007a:180, Yakubovich 2012a:324, Schürr 2012a:133, Christiansen 2012a:145, HEG W-Z:234, Martínez Rodríguez 2018a:281). Clear evidence is available in the bilingual TL 6, where Lyc. A hrppi lada (line 2) corresponds to Gr. ἐπὶ ταῖς γυναιξίν (line 5).
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1.1.4Stem
Lyc. A lada- is a common gender a-stem.
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1.1.5Origin
For various etymological proposals of Lycian lada- ‘wife’, see Neumann 2007a:181f. with further literature.
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1.2 Lycian B
lada-
‘lady, wife’1.2.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested in the inscription TL 55, the engraved lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated stylistically to shortly after 400 BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).
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1.2.2Forms
| acc. sg. | ladã | TL 55.4 (Antiphellos) | |
| dat. sg. | ḷadi | TL 55.7 (Antiphellos) |
1.2.3Graphic Features
The second attestation is obtained by the emendation of the sequence luwadladi to luwad ladi, which has been suggested in DLL:120; see under Lyc. B luwa-.
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1.2.4Meaning
For the basic meaning, see Meaning under the corresponding Lycian A lemma. According to Neumann 1974c:641, ladã in TL 55.4 is the second member of a compound xbaladã ‘Lady Chba (Hepat)’ (thus also in DLL:135).
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