trisñne/i-
‘three-year old’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 612
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
trisñne/i-
‘three-year old’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested on the inscribed pillar of Xanthos dated shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and in a non-dated dedicatory inscription of Tlos.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| acc. sg. c. | trisñni | TL 26.18 (Tlos) |
| TL 44b.45 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
The adjective trisñni modifies in both occurrences wawã ‘bull, cow, bovine’. The word for ‘three’ in the first part of the word tri-sñni was recognized early (see already Bugge 1899a:59), but mistranslated as ‘thirty’. A convincing interpretation of the second part was offered by Neumann (apud Oettinger 1994a:323 n. 72, Neumann 1999a:50-53), who suggests the meaning ‘year’, i.e. trisñni ‘three-year old’. Etymological evidence is adduced by Oettinger (ibid.) to support the semantic assignment of Neumann (see under Reconstruction). Schürr 2014c:133 brings further evidence by comparing the expression wawã trisñni with the one of a Greek inscription from Telmessos, i.e. βοῦν τρι[έτ]ην ‘a three-year old bovine’ (TAM II 1, 26f.).
[D.S.]
For the second member of the compound see PAnat. *zeh1-no- and for the first see PAnat. *téri-/tri-´.