punamadi(je)-
‘of the totality’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- adj
- ID
- 730
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
punamadi(je)-
‘of the totality’1.1.1Transmission
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.]
1.1.2Forms
| abl./instr. | punamadijedi | TL 55.8 (Antiphellos) |
1.1.3Meaning
The adjective punamadijedi modifies tuxaradi ‘with tuxara’, i.e. ‘with the tuxara of the totality’ (cf. Schürr 2005a:148). Since the semantics of the noun are obscure as well as the whole sense of the sentence, it is not possible to say whether punamadijedi refers to the totality of people or of things.
[D.S.]
For the base of the derivative see Lyc. B punãmad(i)-.