ehbi(je)-
‘his, her, its’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- pron
- ID
- 3659
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
ehbi(je)-
‘his, her, its’1.1.1Transmission
This possessive pronoun is well attested throughout the Lycian corpus.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. c. | ehbi | TL 22.2 (Tlos) |
| TL 109.2 (Limyra) | ||
| TL 110.2 (Limyra) | ||
| TL 121 (Limyra) | ||
| N 317.3 (Limyra) | ||
| acc. sg. c. | ehbi | TL 25a.5 (Tlos) |
| TL 88.3 (Myra) | ||
| TL 93.2 (Myra) | ||
| TL 94.2 (Myra) | ||
| N 306.2 (Ҫağman) | ||
| nom./acc. sg. n. | ehbijẽ | N 320.12 (Xanthos) |
| dat. sg. | ehbi | TL 11.2 (Pinara) |
| TL 17.2 (Pinara) | ||
| TL 27.5 (Düwer) | ||
| TL 27.8 (Düwer) | ||
| TL 80.1 (Antiphellos) | ||
| nom. pl. | ehbi | TL 107.1 (Limyra) |
| acc. pl. | ehbis | TL 101.2 (Limyra) |
| TL 102.2 (Limyra) | ||
| dat. pl. | ehbije | TL 8.3 (Karmylessos) |
| TL 13.5 (Pinara) | ||
| TL 44a.23 (Xanthos) | ||
| TL 44b.46 (Xanthos) | ||
| TL 95.2 (Myra) | ||
| ehbe | N 317.2 (Limyra) | |
| abl./instr. | ehbijedi | TL 44a.41-42 (Xanthos) |
| TL 44a.46 (Xanthos) | ||
| gen. adj. dat. sg. | ehbiehi | TL 39.4 (Xanthos) |
| ehbij[ehi] | TL 44a.26 (Xanthos) | |
| e[hb]ije[h]i | TL 108.4 (Limyra) | |
| [ehbi]jehi | N 349.2 (Kadyanda) |
For the analysis of ehbijẽ as nom./acc. sg. n., see Laroche 1979c:87 (followed by Melchert in DLL:12; contra Gusmani 1975e:65 “ehbi=j=ẽ”, Carruba 1977a:296 “gen. pl.”).
Contra Laroche 1979c:87, Melchert 2002c:251 (DLL:13) and Neumann 2007a:52, the sequence seijehrijaitẽ : tasa (previously read as seijehbijaitẽ : tasa; see now Adiego 2012a:96) does not contain the possessive pronoun in the nom./acc. pl. n.
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1.1.3Meaning
The recognition of the Lycian possessive pronoun of the 3rd person singular ehbi was facilitated mainly by the contexts of attestation (further supported by the Greek-Lycian bilingual inscriptions; e.g. TL 23, TL 25, TL 56) and the now outdated comparison with Iranian; see among the scholars of the 19th century Savelsberg 1874a:27, Deecke 1887a:141f., Torp 1898b:44, Thomsen 1899a:45f. n. 1. Nowadays, the analysis of Lyc. ehbi(je)- as a possessive pronoun of the 3rd person singular is consensus; see Pedersen 1945a:36, Laroche 1960a:180, Houwink ten Cate 1961a:68, Melchert (DLL:13), Neumann 2007a:52.
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1.1.4Stem
The possessive pronoun inflects like an adjective in -i(je)- (aside from the “mistake” ehbe for ehbije) and goes back to the genitival adjective of the demonstrative pronoun ebe(ñne)-, i.e. ebehe/i- + -i(je)- with syncope and metathesis of *-bh- to -hb- (cf. Laroche 1960a:180, Neumann 1961a:51).
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see Lyc. A ebe(ñne)-.