tisẽne/i-

This lexeme is found in a grave inscription.

[D.S.]

acc. sg.

tisẽni

TL 118.1 (Limyra)

Kalinka 1901a:82 believes that the word is acephalous, i.e. [.]ṭisẽni (thus also Bryce 1986a:83, Neumann 2007a:451, Neumann 2012a:390). Bugge 1901a:19 (likewise Carruba 1968a:21, Gehrisch 2018a:157) sees rather the word as complete, and this is confirmed by the new edition of Christiansen 2020a:252 with autography and photo.

[D.S.]

On archeological grounds, it is clear that tisẽni refers to the sarcophagus on which it is written (Bugge 1901a:19), even though the more frequently attested Lycian term for ‘sarcophagus’ is  teze/i-, a well-known word. No translation is offered by Neumann 2012a:390 or Christiansen 2020a:253. Carruba 1968a:21 and Gehrisch 2018a:157f. adduce the “word” tisedi (TL 118.6), which is to be read as tise (a)di (see Christiansen 2020a:252), and Gehrisch goes a step further suggesting an etymological connection with the gloss wedge word tiššā(i)-^(mi) ‘to make right, set up’ (cf. under lemma) and translating Lyc. tisẽne/i- with ‘that which is set up’. However, she does not address the phonological difficulties surrounding the retention of the -s- in Lyc. A tisẽni, which would necessitate an earlier consonant cluster such as Pre-Lyc. *tisH- or *tisk̑-, but see under Reconstruction of the lemma head for a new shape of the root, which brings evidence for the connection. One should also compare Lyd. tisard(i)-.

[D.S.]

The noun tisẽne/i- looks like a nominal formation in -ẽne/i- (comparable to CLuw. -ann(i)-).

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see Lyc. *tis-.