tube-(di)
‘to agree (vel sim.)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2058
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
tube-(di)
‘to agree (vel sim.)’1.1.1Transmission
This verb is attested in N 320, the Letoon trilingual inscription, most commonly dated to 337 BCE, the first year of the Achaemenid king Arses, during the reign of the Carian satrap Pixodaros (Badian 1977a:49f, Bryce 1986a:48f, Keen 1998a:10, Wagner 2011a:156) and N 324, dated to the reign of Arbinas in the beginning of the 4th century BCE (see Bousquet 1992a).
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | tubedẽ | N 320.5-6 (Xanthos) |
| N 324.13 (Xanthos) |
This verb occurs with the preverbs hri (N 324) and hñti (N 320).
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1.1.3Meaning
On the trilingual inscription N 320, tubedẽ corresponds to Gr. ἔδοξε ‘it seemed good’. The subjects are arus ‘citizenry’ and epewẽtlem͂mẽi arñnãi ‘the perioikos of Xanthos’. Thus, a meaning ‘to agree, decide, come to consensus (vel sim.)’ is a plausible interpretation (see Carruba 1977a:284, Laroche 1979c:62, Bousquet 1992a:184, Sasseville 2021a:210). The verb is derived from tube- ‘strike, battle (vel sim.) (?)’ and etymologically connected to tub(e)i-(di) ‘to destroy’. For the semantic drift to ‘to agree (vel sim.)’, cf. the Swedish expression slå sig samman ‘to unite, conspire, etc.’, lit. ‘to strike oneself together’, which agrees well with the use of the preverb hñti on N 320, similar in function to Swe. samman ‘together’.
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1.1.4Stem
Lyc. A tube-(di) is a leniting e-stem verb. According to Melchert 1997b:136 and Sasseville 2021a:210, it is derived from tube- translated here with ‘strike (vel sim.) (?)´. A corresponding iterative radical cognate is most likely found in Lyc. tub(e)i-(di) ‘to destroy’.
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For the derivational base, see Lyc. tube-.