mārz(a)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- subst
- ID
- 480
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
mārz(a)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the mythical passage of the ritual for the disappearing deity.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | ma-a-ar-za | KUB 32.18 i 6’ | (CTH 752, MS) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photograph of the Konkordanz.
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1.1.4Meaning
The word mārz(a) is modified by māḫlanz(a) ‘having a branch of a grapevine’. Carruba 1970a:64 suggests that it is something vegetal, although one would rather expect that it is some kind of object decorated with a branch (or branches) of grapevine.
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1.1.5Stem
The stem can be taken as /mar-/, in which case the ending -s would become -z following a resonant (thus Melchert 1994a:194), or as /mart-/ (/márT-s/ = mārz(a)). Outdated Carruba 1970a:64.
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1.1.6Origin
No etymology possible.
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