xadrñna

This lexeme is found in a funerary inscription from Rhodiapolis.

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nom./acc. pl. or coll.

xadrñna

TL 150.9 (Rhodiapolis)

The Lycian word xadrñna designates that which is to be offered yearly in sacrifice by the potential offender. Melchert (DLL:80) suggests it to be related to Hitt. *ḫatar ‘grain, spelt’ (followed by Hajnal 1995a:133 “Getreide”, Serangeli 2018a:322f. “Mehlspeisespende”, Serangeli 2019a:238 “aus Getreide bestehend”, Gehrisch 2018a:171 “Getreide”), which is not attested (not listed in HW 2nd ed. Ḫ:497), although a word ḫattar ‘(a sort of grain)’ is listed by Tischler (HEG H:220), its meaning mainly motivated by an etymological approach with Lat. ador, -ris ‘(a sort of grain)’. Nonetheless, the geminate -tt- is not directly compatible with Lyc. *xad-, unless one assumes a lenition between unaccented syllables, requiring the n-formation seen in Lycian to be of Proto-Anatolian date.. For further information on a putative Lycian root *xad- meaning ‘grain’, see under xθθas-. Overall, the semantic approach with ‘grain’ is very weak and more evidence is needed. The word is left untranslated by Carruba 1977a:285, Sasseville 2021a:59.

Outdated Meriggi 1936b:266f. “four” (doubted already by Pedersen 1945a:50 and Korolev & Shevoroshkin 1969a:529). Schürr 2014a:759 n. 41 suggests that xadrñna is a place name, which is highly unlikely in the context.

[D.S.]

Neumann 2007a:109 sees an ethnic adjective in -(w)ñne/i-, which is semantically difficult (as admitted by Melchert in DLL:80). A simple (substantivized) -ne/i- adjective (perhaps from -ẽne/i- with syncope, though not necessarily) derived from an r-stem or a heteroclitic stem is more likely. Morphologically and phonologically, it would represent the expected base of CLuw. ḫatarni-^(ti) (cf. under lemma).

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