epñnẽne/i-
‘younger brother’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3860
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
epñnẽne/i-
‘younger brother’1.1.1Transmission
This hapax is attested in a sepulchral inscription in Xanthos.
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1.1.2Forms
| dat./loc. sg. | epñnẽni | TL 37.4 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
Lyc. A epñnẽne/i- occurs in a dedicatory context where a term of relation is expected. The meaning ‘younger brother’ is virtually consensual since the treatments in Laroche 1958b:192 and Laroche 1974b:125ff. (followed in e.g. DLL:15, Neumann 2007a:62, Schürr 2013d:261, Oreshko 2014a:614, Christiansen 2020a:206). The word may be analyzed as a compound consisting of epñ ‘behind, after’ and nẽne/i- ‘brother’, thus literally ‘after-brother (vel sim.)’. In support of this, a parallel construction is found in Hittite, where a younger brother is referred to as EGIR-azzi-ŠEŠ-ni (CTH 343, see Laroche 1974b:126).
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1.1.4Stem
On account of the stem formation of nẽne/i-, the final member of the compound, Lyc. epñnẽne/i- is an i-mutating common gender stem.
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For the derivational base, see Lyc. A nẽne/i- ‘brother’.