zaza-(ti)
‘to dedicate’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 1968
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
zaza-(ti)
‘to dedicate’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. act. | zazati | TL 44c.34 (Xanthos) | |
| TL 44d.32 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
The Lycian B verb zaza-(ti) is a reduplicated formation based on Lycian A za-(ti) ‘to give as a share’ (thus Melchert (DLL:137) ‘to allot, distribute’, Sasseville 2021a:57, Gehrisch 2018a:82 ‘darbringen’, hesitant Heubeck 1985a:45. Outdated Shevoroshkin 1969a:255 ‘to report’. Sasseville 2021a:236 points out that the clause lacra… zazati uttered by the narrator is repeated a few lines later within the speech of the Storm-god in the assembly as lacra trbbdi ‘he hands over the lacra’ and that both verbs should have a similar meaning (also noticed by Shevoroshkin 2014a:246). He translates zazati, which takes a god as indirect object, with ‘he dedicates’.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base see Lyc. za-(ti).