xi-
‘to perform an offering/sacrifice’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1697
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
xi-
‘to perform an offering/sacrifice’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested in a grave inscription from Sura.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | xitẽ | TL 84.4 (Sura) |
1.1.3Meaning
The context, in which the verb xi- appears, is less clear than the one of its iterative form xis-(ti) ‘to sacrifice’. Nevertheless, it can be identified as sacrificial in nature, because it is said that the author of the inscription made his own temenos, for which the mluhidaza (a religious title) had to perform certain functions, xi- being one of them. In TL 84.4, the verb xi- is used with the adposition epi being postposed. This is probably intransitive, because no direct object can be identified within the sentence. Therefore, the meaning ‘to perform an offering/sacrifice (vel sim.) is appropriate; cf.DLL:83.
[D.S.]
1.2 Lycian B
*xi-
‘to perform an offering/sacrifice’1.2.1Derivatives
2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
The Lycian verb xi- could be either a denominative in -i-(ti) (< *i̯é/ó-(ti)) from the noun xe/i- ‘offering, sacrifice’ (thus DLL:83) or it could be the direct cognate of the Hittite verb ḫi(n)k-/ḫai(n)k-(mi) ‘to bestow, offer’. Until more evidence emerges from the Lycian synchronic data, the verb xi- is taken here as a denominative by default.
[D.S.]
For the lemma head see Lyc. xe/i-.