awkufo-^(d)

This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription that has not been accurately dated.

[D.S.]

3pl. pres. act.

fawkufot

LW 12.5 (Sardis)

For the distinction between 3sg. pres. -od and 3pl. pres. -ot in verbal stems in -o-^(d), see Sasseville 2021a:183f.

[D.S.]

Meriggi 1935a:115 suggests the meaning ‘to rest’ because of the dat./loc. sg. wãnaλ ‘in the rock-carved grave/tomb’ in the sentence (tentatively followed by Gusmani 1964a:123, left untranslated by Schürr 2011a:77 n. 1). However, if the subject qaašliš (nom. pl.) is interpreted correctly as referring to the persons renting out the tomb, the meaning ‘to rest’ becomes less adequate.

              nin=in nid qaašliš wãnaλ akτaλ fawkufot (LW 12.5)

              ‘The renters(?) shall not/never awkufot to/for the dead in the tomb (vel sim.).’

Further evidence is needed.

[D.S.]

The verb awkufo-^(d) is likely derived from awka(/i)-. The -f-, which looks like a suffix, might simply go back to the glide between u and o, i.e. *-uu̯o- > *-uβo- > -ufo-. That would leave a nominal suffix -wo- c., from which the denominative verb was derived; cf. pλtarwod, arwol, psadwol=im.

[D.S.]

For the derivational base, see Lyd. awka(/i)-.