θrm͂ma-
‘command (?)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3639
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
θrm͂ma-
‘command (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax attested on TL 44, the pillar of Xanthos, dated stylistically to around 400 BCE and contextually to shortly after the ascension of the Persian emperor Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).
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1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. | θrm͂mã | TL 44b.44 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
According to Hajnal 1995a:34 n. 22, Lyc. A θrm͂ma- means ‘command’ (followed in DLL:75). This analysis is contextually appropriate and yields a satisfactory translation of the passage in TL 44b.44-45: [m]e=i : θrm͂mã : pibijeti : xurzazẽ : kumez[e]ine : uhazata : wawã : trisñni ‘one will keep giving the command to sacrifice a three-year old bovine to him as a yearly offering of the xurzaza’ (Hajnal takes the gen. pl. xurzazẽ as modifying uhazata, whereas it is analyzed as modifying θrm͂mã in Sasseville 2021a:240). See also Meaning under the radically cognate Lyc. A verb θr(e)i-(di) ‘to command (?)’. However, given that the lexeme is a hapax, the meaning ‘command’ cannot be considered securely established beyond reasonable doubt. For example, Neumann 2007a:396 rather sees θrm͂ma- as a collection of individuals specified by the gen. pl. xurzazẽ.
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1.1.4Stem
As evidenced by the acc. sg. form θrm͂mã, Lyc. A θrm͂ma- is a common gender a-stem (cf. Martínez Rodríguez 2018a:277 “neuter noun”).
Lyc. A θrm͂ma- shares the “radical” element θr- with the verb θr(e)i-(di) ‘to command (vel sim.)’; see under θr(e)i-(di) for the origin of θr-.
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