hrihe-
‘supreme power (?)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 3847
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
hrihe-
‘supreme power (?)’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
| nom./acc. pl. | hriha | TL 44b.60 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
According to Hajnal 1995a:34 n. 22, Lyc. A hrihe is a substantivized gen. adj. to the adposition hri ‘up, on (top) (vel sim.)’ (thus also tentatively in Neumann 2007a:98). The literal meaning would thus be ‘what belongs to that which is high’, in Hajnal’s interpretation used to signify ‘die oberste Gewalt’ (followed in DLL:25 with the translation ‘supreme power’). Since the lexeme is a hapax, the meaning can only be determined tentatively.
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1.1.4Stem
Lyc. A hriha occurs as direct object to the verb θr(e)i-(di) (cf. also Schürr 2012a:132f.). Therefore, the natural analysis is to assume a neuter noun in the plural (per DLL:25 probably a plurale tantum). However, a common gender collective form is not inconceivable.
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For the derivational base, see Lyc. A hri.