mawa-^(ti)

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 ([4835] Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

[D.S.]

3sg. pret. ind. act.	mawate	TL 44c.45 (Xanthos)
		TL 44c.48 (Xanthos)

Contra Schürr 2016d:164, who takes mawate as a 3^rd pl. form with sporadic loss of nasalization, which is not convincing either from a combinatory perspective or from the context, in which the king Gergis is clearly subject.

[D.S.]

The verb mawa- takes as direct objects only two different nouns in the available data: klleima ‘payments, tributes’ and timlu, which designates a kind of offering. From a morphological perspective, mawa- is a factitive in -a-^(ti) derived from a base *mawa-. Etymologically, *mawa- can be best equated with CLuw. māuwa- ‘four’. Accordingly, the denominative verb should mean ‘to make fourfold’, which is an adequate translation for each of the two passages, i.e. kudi mawate klleima (line 45) ‘where he made the tributes fourfold’, timlu mawate waxsadi ‘he made the timla-offering fourfold with waxssa’. Neumann 2007a:197 suggests the meaning ‘to reward (someone) (vel sim.)’ (followed by Gehrisch 2018a:82), which is not supported by the meaning of the direct objects. Melchert (DLL:120) rejects rightly old and speculative hypotheses (for which see Neumann 2007a:197 with further literature), but does not make any new suggestion.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see Lyc. B *mawa-.