ebi(je)-
‘local’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 3654
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
ebi(je)-
‘local’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in different types of inscriptions from the classical period.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | ebi | TL 84.3 (Sura) |
| dat./loc. sg. | ebi | TL 26.8 (Tlos) |
| TL 65.19 (Isinda) | ||
| TL 84.7 (Sura) | ||
| TL 109.6 (Limyra) | ||
| TL 111.3 (Limyra) | ||
| eḅị | TL 75.5 (Tyberissos) | |
| (e)bi | TL 26.3 (Tlos) | |
| TL 26.17 (Tlos) | ||
| TL 44b.48 (Xanthos) | ||
| gen. adj. nom. sg. c. | ebijehi | TL 56.4 (Antiphellos) |
| TL 65.24 (Isinda) | ||
| TL 131.4 (Limyra) | ||
| eb[ij]ehi | TL 110.5 (Limyra) | |
| gen. adj. dat./loc. sg. | ebij[eh]ị | TL 102.3 (Limyra) |
| [eb]ijehi | TL 111.5 (Limyra) | |
| ebijehi | TL 131.3 (Limyra) | |
| N 320.38 (Xanthos) | ||
| (e)bijehi | TL 44c.7 (Xanthos) | |
| gen. adj. of unclear case, number and gender | ebi[jehi] | TL 26.8 (Tlos) |
| ebijehi | TL 112.6 (Limyra) | |
| TL 145.4 (Limyra) |
The form ebi contracted from *ebiji looks identical to the disjunction ebi.
The instance at TL 84.7, in which it forms a constituent with qla and surezi, could be nom. sg. instead, i.e. the subject of the verb sm̃mati, although a dative/locative singular dependent on pddẽ is also possible and given preference here; cf. N 320.37-39.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
Torp 1901b:5 suggests on contextual grounds that ebi(je)- means ‘(Germ.) hier befindlich, hiesig / (Engl.) (of) here, local’, which was subsequently adopted by many scholars (Laroche 1960a:182, Laroche 1979c:75, Bryce 1986a:77, Melchert in DLL:12, Hajnal 1995a:138, Eichner 2005a:32 n. 170, Neumann 2007a:49, Gehrisch 2018a:129f., Christiansen 2020a:214 “of this”; contra Schürr 1998a:150 and Schürr 2016a:761, 769).
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
Only Melchert (DLL:12) properly recognizes the adjectival formation in -i(je)- derived from the demonstrative pronoun ebe- ‘this here’ (cf. Laroche 1960a:182 and Eichner 2005a:32 n. 170, who compare Hitt. apiya ‘back then, there’).
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see Lyc. ebe(ñne)-.