*pii̯etéh₂i̯e/o-

This lexeme is found in two inscriptions from Sardis that have been recently dated to the second half of the 6^th century BCE (Euler & Sasseville 2019a:135f.).

[D.S.]

The form pitat must be assigned to a lexeme different from the one of pitad (contra Gusmani 1964a:82). Their morphological relationship as two different denominative verbs derived from the same base is explained in Sasseville 2015a:287, 291.

[D.S.]

The verb pita-^(d) is found in passages containing offensive actions that can be undertaken against someone’s possessions. While Gusmani 1964a:82 assigns the tentative meaning ‘to usurp (?)’, Gérard 2005a:127 leaves it untranslated; cf. Dusinberre 2003a:230 ‘to do evil’, Bouzid-Adler 2014a:14 ‘to abuse’, Euler & Sasseville 2019a:132 ‘to give a citollad as a gift’. The verb pita-^(d) co-occurs twice with the word citollad of obscure semantics. Formally, citollad could be taken either as a neuter singular or as a denominative verb. The latter hypothesis would require that citollad and pitad are two verbs standing in an asyndetic relation, for which no parallels have been found so far in Lydian. From a morphological perspective, pita-^(d) is a denominative verb in -a-^(d) derived from the base *pita-, which can be equated to Lyc. pijata- c. ‘that which is given, gift, delivery’ (Sasseville 2015a:291). Its semantics are probably close to the one of pita-^(t) ‘to give as a gift’, but a precise semantic assignment cannot be given as long as the meaning of citollad is unknown.

[D.S.]

On the Lydian stem class in -a-^(d) see Sasseville 2021a:106-113.

[D.S.]

CHD P:358