FEMINA.MANUS.VIR₂

This lexeme is attested four times in inscriptions from Emirgazi and Konya, dating to the 13^th century BCE.

[A.P.]

nom. pl.	/…/	FEMINA.MANUS.VIR2-zi/a	EMİRGAZİ 2, §13 (Emirgazi)
		FEMINA.MANUS.VIR2	EMİRGAZİ 2, §13 (Emirgazi)YALBURT Frag. 1, §9 (Konya)YALBURT Frag. 2, §5 (Konya)

The attestations in EMİRGAZİ 2, §13 (first attestation) and YALBURT Frag. 2, §5 are quite unclear on the photographs and therefore deemed possible, but not certain.

The traditional interpretation of logograms now read 〈FEMINA.MANUS.VIR₂〉 was 〈FEMINA.INFANS〉, cf. e.g. Hawkins 1995a:68.

[A.P.]

Based on the previous interpretation of the logograms used, i.e. FEMINA.INFANS, Hawkins 1995a:76 and Poetto 1993a:70f. interpreted them to represent the doublet ‘women (and) children’ (thus followed also by Martínez Rodríguez 2019b:187). In the contexts of the inscriptions, a more general meaning such as ‘people’ seems more likely, cf. e.g. YALBURT frag. 2, 15§5: a-wa/i tala/i-wa/i(REGIO) FEMINA.MANUS.VIR₂ GENU-zi/a INFRA kwa/i-zi/a-tá, meaning ‘(I came to the Tlawa region), and the people of Tlawa fell down to (their) knees’ (cf. Yakubovich 2017e:s.v.).

[AH.B.]

Unknown beyond the fact that the syllabically spelt ending in EMİRGAZİ 2, §13 shows that the word forms a plural in /-nzi/ and must therefore be common gender.

[AH.B.]