hike(/i)-
‘fig (?)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 3962
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
hike(/i)-
‘fig (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).
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1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | ḥịkedị | TL 44b.4 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
For the reading of the first letter and the word divider before, i.e. : ḥịkedị, see Schürr 2007b:118. Before, the word was read as [ … i]ked[i] (Kalinka 1901a:41), [ … ]iked[i] (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:22).
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1.1.4Meaning
The word hikedi is coordinated with mrbbẽnedi within a context of post-war amendments and rewards towards the tributary towns of the Lycian king. From an etymological point of view, the word hike(/i)- (from pre-Lycian *sike(/i)-) can be tentatively equated with Hitt./Hurr. šigga- ‘fig (?)’ (HEG S:1035 with further literature, Görke 2010a:119). It is however possible that it denotes the color of the fig used for dye; cf. mrbbẽ(n)-. Outdated Eichner 2005a:26, who read the word as †ikedi. For a parallel use of figs in Hittite context, see KUB 30.15+ obv. 21-23 (Schwemer 2022a:359 n. 15).
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