xñta-^(ti)

This verb is found in an inscription engraved on a stele discovered on the acropolis of Xanthos and dated roughly to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Laroche 1979c:115f.).

[D.S.]

1sg. pret. ind. act.

xñtaxa

TL 45b.3 (Xanthos)

For the interpretation as a verbal form, see Laroche 1979c:118 and Melchert (DLL:83).

[D.S.]

The verb xñtaxa takes as direct object the noun wehñ (contra Hajnal 1995a:172 n. 227), which is translated as ‘pasture’; see under lemma. Despite the fragmentary state of the stele, one can understand from the context that it refers to certain cultic regulations in relation to the goddess Malija. The meaning of the denominative verb xñta-^(ti) can be approximated by adducing the following cognates: Lyc. tllaxñta- ‘payment standard’, Hitt. ḫandā(i)-^(mi) ‘to put in order, prepare’ (HW 2nd ed. H:163). Using these cognates, Hajnal (ibid.) suggests the meaning ‘to supervise’. Differently, Melchert (DLL:83) equates it etymologically to Hitt. ḫā(i)-^(mi) ‘to believe, trust’ and translates xñta-^(ti) as ‘to entrust, consign’ (followed by Gehrisch 2018a:100). All these suggestions are possible, yet none can be proven until further attestations of this verb are found.

[D.S.]

Since it is a denominal formation, the verbal form xñtaxa must belong to a factitive verb in -a-^(ti).

[D.S.]

1. xñtata-

For the base of the derivative, see Lyc. A xñta-.