fadi-

This prefixed verb is attested once in a poetic inscription, coming from the cemetery of Sardis and datable to 5^th-4^th century BCE.

[I.Y.]

The verb fa-d-i- appears to be ditransitive, as is fa-d-in-. These two verbs are isolated as a cluster in Meriggi 1935a:104 n. 79. Meriggi (ibid.) assumes that in both instances one is dealing with the description of harmful impact, and hence offers the meaning ‘to usurp’ for fa-d-il. The same translation is tentatively accepted in Gusmani 1964a:115. The verb phrase kafolcν fadil does seem to refer to some harmful action, or rather its absence, given the accompanying negation. But its compositional meaning is more likely to come from kafolcν than from fadil, whereas the synchronic cognates of fadil plead rather for its broad functional meaning ‘to cause’.

[I.Y.]

The verb fadi- represents a combination of the prefixes fa- and d(a)- with the stem i- Yakubovich 2005b:76. The only reason to treat here the prefixed stem separately from its base, contrary to the usual practice, is the assumption that the bare stem i- lexicalized the intransitive meaning, in opposition to its suffixed derivative in(a)-, whereas fa-d-i- is a transitive verb, like its suffixed counterpart fa-d-in-. It is likely that fa-d-i- was combined with the active endings in the present tense, even though they are not directly attested. See further under Lyd. i- and Lyd. in(a)-^(t).

A different segmentation fa-dil is proposed in Melchert 1994b:185f. on the assumption that di- represents a morphophonemic variant of the stem i- ‘to do, make’. This solution appears to be formally possible, but the segmentation of the prefix d(a)- appears to be likely on semantic grounds, as it is likely responsible for the ditransitive character of the verb under discussion.

[I.Y.]

For the lemma head see Lyd. i-.