lajata
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 420
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
lajata
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom./acc. pl. or coll. | lajata | TL 55.4 (Antiphellos) |
For the grammatical assignment see DLL:119. Shevoroshkin (apud Neumann 2007a:182) suggests a verbal ending in -ta instead of -te. This is unparalleled and, therefore, not accepted here.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
The word lajata occurs in an obscure context. Schürr 2005a:142 suggests that it agrees with the word tidñta ‘?’, although it is more likely that is agrees with mñnusama ‘made into something fertile’ occurring right before. Shevoroshkin 2002a:229 assumes the existence of a Lycian root la- meaning ‘to take’ and assumes that lajata- is a derivative meaning ‘takers’. His semantic assignment cannot be supported contextually or morphologically (contra Shevoroshkin 2014a:247).
[D.S.]
1.1.4Origin
No etymology possible.
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