xñtabaime/i-

This lexeme is found in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a).

[D.S.]

dat. sg.

xñtabaimi

TL 44c.43 (Xanthos)

The semantic assignment as acc. or dat. sg. depends on whether xñtabaimi agrees with lacri (dat.) or with zrbblã (acc.). It is taken here together with lacri on contextual grounds; see under lacra-.

[D.S.]

Most scholars saw in xñtabaimi a participial form of xñtaba-^(ti), which was semantically interpreted as ‘to rule’ and xñtabaimi was therefore translated as ‘ruling’ or ‘ruled’ (Gusmani 1968c:9, DLL:136, Hajnal 1995a:154f., Neumann 2007a:126, Gehrisch 2018a:82). However, considering the ritualistic context, this semantic assignment is not convincing. Since it occurs in a context with xñtaba- ‘arrangement, preparations’ (see under lemma), a meaning such as ‘having or containing the (sacrificial) preparations’ is more appropriate. This can in turn be supported by the noun it modifies; see under under lacra-.

[D.S.]

Schürr 2016d:178 suggests that xñtabaime/i- should be regarded as the participle of a denominative verb xñtaba(i)-^(mi), which fits the fact that factitives in -a-^(ti) were often built beside denominatives in -a(i)-^(di) (see Sasseville 2015a:287f., contra Hajnal 1995a:154f.). Differently, one could posit a denominal formation in -aime/i- derived directly from the substantive xñtaba- (thus DLL:136).

[D.S.]

For the derivational base see Lyc. B xñtaba-.