fẽdanoli-(t)
‘(an offensive action)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1598
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
fẽdanoli-(t)
‘(an offensive action)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found on a stele that is dated tentatively to around 500 BCE (Gérard 2005a:20); contra Bossert 1936a:430f. “4th century”.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | fẽdanoλt | LW 54.3 (Sardis) |
Sasseville 2021a:164f. analyzes the word as f(a)-ẽ(n)-d(a)-anoli-(t), although he acknowledges that the base could be noli-(t) instead and thus no elision in the preverb da- would be needed. Further evidence is needed.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
The verb fẽdanoλt is coordinated with fišqãnt ‘destroys’, which means that it represents an offensive action (Gusmani 1964a:123f., Sasseville 2021a:164). Gusmani 1961a:199 suggests the meaning ‘to manipulate’ (followed by Dusinberre 2003a:232 ‘mishandles’). In a later publication, Gusmani 1969a:141 translates it instead with ‘destroys’, whereas Payne & Wintjes 2016a:83 translate it with ‘does evil’. While the approximate semantics are clear, a more exact meaning is yet to be recovered.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
For the verbal stem class, see Sasseville 2021a:162-165.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Origin
No etymology offered.
[D.S.]