aνat(i)-

This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription from Sardis.

[D.S.]

acc. sg.

aνatν

LW 13.8 (Sardis)

Contra Meriggi 1935a:107, who treats aνatν as a 1sg. pret. verbal form. The finite verb of the sentence is already expressed by fasfẽnwν ‘we own’.

[D.S.]

It should be noted that the last syllable with -ν is accounted for by the meter.

[D.S.]

The word aνatν is best taken as an adjective in -t(i)- modifying τaλalaν (acc. sg.), the direct object of the verb fasfẽnwν ‘we own’, whereas ẽna(s)=t and lẽm(s)=k are subjects (contra Schürr 2011a:77f.). Meriggi 1935a:107 relates aνatν to the verb aνi- (= Hitt. aniye/a-^(mi) ‘to do, accomplish’), which is not likely on morphological grounds, since the -i- in aνi- is the actual root.

[D.S.]

If the syncope in the ending is genuine (and not metrically adapted), a mutated stem in -t(i)- can be posited. For the Lydian paradigm of i-mutation, see Sasseville 2017a.

[D.S.]

No etymology is offered here.

[D.S.]