ebei
‘here’
- Language
- Lycian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3655
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
ebei
‘here’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in various inscriptions.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
1.1.3Meaning
The word ebei has been considered by scholars to be the dat. and/or loc. sg. form of the demonstrative pronoun with an additional adverbial function ‘here’ (Thomsen 1899a:10, 24, 49, Stoltenberg 1955a:74, Houwink ten Cate 1961a:67, Laroche 1979c:71, Gusmani 1979c:231, Melchert in DLL:11, Eichner 2005a:23), i.e.with the proximal deixis ‘this here (dat.)’.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
The word ebei ‘here’ is indeclinable, although it probably represents a frozen case of the demonstrative pronoun ebe(ñne)- ‘this here’.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Derivatives
1.2 Lycian B
ebei
‘here’1.2.1Transmission
The word is found in each of the two Lycian poetical inscriptions.
[D.S.]
1.2.2Forms
1.2.3Meaning
It is generally agreed that Lyc. B ebei matches Lyc. A ebei and is contextually supported (Shevoroshkin 1977b:127 n. 1, Schürr 2005a:137, Melchert in DLL:114, Neumann 2007a:47, Gehrisch 2018a:108, Schürr 2018b:66, Sasseville 2021a:453, Sasseville 2021c:179).
[D.S.]
For the lemma head, see Lyc. ebe(ñne)-.