ddeze-^(di)

This hapax is attested on the sepulchral inscription TL 107.

[O.B.]

3sg. impv. act.

dḍezedu

TL 107b.2 (Limyra)

Only the leftmost line of the second -d- is visible on the facsimile of Kalinka 1901a:77.

[O.B.]

The imperative form ddezedu occurs in a negated clause on the final line of a sepulchral inscription: hrij eruweti=ti : epñ ebtte : ebei=(i)je : lawitẽnu : munikleimẽ : se ki[ri]numezẽ : se=te ni d[d]ezedu : tike ‘(s)he who expands upon these afterwards (?), may (s)he respect the munikleimẽ and the ki[ri]numezẽ (payments) and may (s)he not ddeze anyone/anything’ (see the individual discussions on the preceding verbs under eruwe-^(ti) ‘to expand, raise (?)’ and lawi- ‘to respect (?)’). The act described by ddeze- is thus transitive (direct object = tike) and something that must not be done to the grave as stipulated by its owner. Previous plausible suggestions include ‘bury’ (Torp 1898b:35, Pedersen 1904a:195, Neumann 2007a:41, Shevoroshkin 2002a:211) and ‘set aside’ (DLL:10).

One possible line of analysis is to segment ddezedu as dde-zedu (thus Torp 1898b:35, Shevoroshkin 2002a:211, Neumann 2012a:406). Accordingly, zedu would in this case belong to the verb ze-^(di). By ways of a derivational connection to *ze- c. ‘allotment, allocation (vel sim.)’ < za- c. ‘allotment’ (see Sasseville 2021a:206-208 for the derivation of leniting e-stem verbs from common gender e-stem nouns), we would expect a meaning ‘assign a share’ or similar (cf. za-^(ti) ‘to give a share’). This would result in a satisfactory translation to the aforementioned passage, i.e. ‘(s)he who expands upon these afterwards (?), may (s)he respect the munikleimẽ and the ki[ri]numezẽ (payments) and may (s)he not assign anyone a share (of the grave)’. It is possible that the derivational base *ze- c. refers specifically to the share of a grave. However, the element -dde- would under this analysis have to be explained either as a preverb of some kind (cf. Neumann 2007a:37f. and Lyc. aladeha-^(di)) or as a particle.

[O.B.]

Lyc. ddeze-^(di) is a leniting e-stem verb, derived from a common gender e-stem noun (Sasseville 2021a:208). The derivational base is either *ze- ‘allotment, allocation (vel sim.)’ (see Meaning) or Lyc. B  deze- c. (but see the discussion under this lemma).

[O.B.]