pideneze(/i)-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3429
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
pideneze(/i)-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested in a funerary inscription.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| gen. pl. (?) | pidenezẹ̃ | TL 112.6 (Limyra) |
Meriggi 1936b:262 (after Deecke 1887b:327) treats pidenezẽ as a gen pl. (thus also Christiansen 2020a:242), comparing ethnica on coins such as pttarazẽ and wahñtezẽ, whereas Neumann 2007a:268 regards it as nom./acc. sg. n. (thus also Gehrisch 2018a:154), which is less likely in view of the nom./acc. pl. n. immediately following, but since the context is fragmentary none of the suggestions can be verified.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
For a new collation of the inscription, see Christiansen 2020a:242f.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
The phrase sñta pidenezẽ [....]ata is attested in a penalty formula, detailing what the potential offender will have to pay, i.e. ‘10 […]ata (of) pidenezẽ’. An ethnicon as suggested in the older literature (see above) is not contextually attractive. The etymological connection by Gehrisch 2018a:154 with the Hittite hapax piddā(i)-(mi) (CHD P: 358), a derivative of the Hittite collective piyetta- ‘allotment’, does not work on phonological grounds, since it would leave the lenis -d- in Lycian unexplained. More promising is the CLuw. cognate pītann(i)-, except that its semantics are likewise obscure. Pending a proper etymological connection, no meaning is attributed here to Lyc. pideneze(/i)-.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
The formation probably contains the adjectival suffix -(e)ze/i-, although -eze- c. is also possible (see Sasseville 2021a:207). In any case, it is derived from a noun *piden(i)- (contra Gehrisch 2018a:154), which is directly attested in CLuw., see pītann(i)-.
[D.S.]