ubreñne/i-

This lexeme is found once in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4th century BCE. (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

[D.S.]

nom. sg. c.

ubreñṇị?

TL 55.7 (Antiphellos)

The grammatical analysis is not assured; cf. under Meaning.

[D.S.]

Kalinka 1901a:54 reads ubreñ..abrala. Schürr 2005a:122 reads the segment as ubreñ:zabrala and emends it to ubreñ{:}za (u)brala (ibid. 154) (also Shevoroshkin 2014a:244). The reading ubreñ is adopted by Melchert (DLL:133). Neumann 2007a:399 has the better reading ubreñni, which renders a proper Lycian form. On our picture, the partly damaged letter n after ñ can still be seen. The last letter i, on the other hand, is more difficult to see and is accepted here only provisionally.

[D.S.]

The suffix -ñne/i- reminds us of the Lycian A ethnicon suffix of the same shape. The next word, abrala (nom. sg. c.) with which ubreñni perhaps agrees, designates a person, resulting in grammatical and contextual support for an ethnicon suffix. Since there are several Lycian A lexical items borrowed into Lycian B, the interpretation as a Lycian A ethnicon is possible, but remains tentative until a place name called ubra is found. Schürr 2005a:154 compares the segment ubr- to the second member -υβερις of Lycian personal names attested in Greek inscriptions and (Schürr 2009c:103) to a Carian personal name. Shevoroshkin 2002c:407 translates the part ubre as ‘high’, which is left unsubstantiated.

[D.S.]

No etymology possible.

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