pasñt(i)-

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 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

[D.S.]

Pace Neumann 2007a:258f., the reading of the letter s in pasñte is certain; see Schürr 2005a:122, 127. Gehrisch 2018a:107f. separates pas and ñte ‘in’ but does not explain what pas would be.

[D.S.]

Schürr 2005a:146 interprets pasñte as a 3^rd pl. pret. verbal form and with the gods as the subject, which is not supported by the syntax, since the verb of the sentence is clearly slatu. Therefore, pasñte is better taken as a dative/locative plural agreeing with the word lost in the lacuna, i.e. […]ẹse.

me=i=(e)bei=pe : tuwi=be=w(e)=ẽnẽ : slatu : wesedi : prijãma : pasñte : [...]de atrala (TL 55.5-6)

‘Exactly here, he must give in sacrifice an offering because of (their) grace, by his own will (and) personally, for the pasñte […]ẹse.’

Shevoroshkin 2014a:238 suggests an etymological connection with Hitt. paḫš- ‘to protect’ and thus translates Lyc. B pasñte as ‘protection’ despite the adjectival or participial formation in -nt(i)-. Although the etymological suggestion is formally possible, it is difficult to be certain since the word that it modifies is lost. The suggestion therefore remains highly hypothetical, until further evidence surfaces.

[D.S.]

Formally, pasñte looks like a participle derived from a verbal formation in -s-^(ti) to a root pa- or a root verb pas-.

[D.S.]

No reconstruction is offered here due to the very uncertain morphology and semantics of pasñte.

[D.S.]