kumaza-(ti)
‘to perform a sacrifice’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1132
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
kumaza-(ti)
‘to perform a sacrifice’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested in a grave inscription of Sura and possibly also in a decree from Isinda.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. act. | kumazati | TL 84.6 (Sura) |
| kuṃaza[ti?] | TL 65.22 (Isinda) | |
| 3pl. pres. ind. act. | kumazãti | N 348.13 (Aloanda (Pinara)) |
For the attestation in the inscription N 348, see Onur & Tekoğlu 2020a:22.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
The restoration in TL 65.22 is tentative. A nominal form has also been suggested; cf. Neumann 2007a:175f.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning ‘to perform one’s function as sacrificing priest’
The verb kumaza-(ti) is a factitive verb derived from the agent noun kumaza- ‘sacrificing priest’. Bryce 1980a:47 compares the Lycian phrase me=i ne kumazati within a curse formula with the Greek parallel ἐὰν δὲ μὴ θύσει ‘if he does not perform the sacrifice’. Melchert (DLL:33) emphasizes rightly that kumaza-(ti) is intransitive as opposed to kumez(e)i-(di) and translates the former as ‘to perform a sacrifice’. Since the factitive derivation from an agent noun causes the subject to act as the derivational base prototypically act, Sasseville 2015a:289 translates ‘to perform one’s function as sacrificing priest’, which is equally compatible with the previous semantic analyses.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base see Lyc. kumaza- c.