xuwa-^(ti)

This lexeme is attested in the trilingual inscription of the Letoon dated to 337 BCE (Wagner 2011a:156 with further literature) as well as in a grave inscription. The verb is also attested as the base of the personal name Xuwata, sister of Trbbẽnimi (TL 134, TL 135).

[D.S.]

3sg. pres. ind. act.	xuwati	TL 80.2 (Antiphellos)
		N 320.11, 30 (Xanthos)

The meaning of xuwati was elucidated when the trilingual inscription was discovered, in which it corresponds to Greek ἐγγύτατος ᾖ ‘is the nearest, close to, follows’ (Laroche 1979c:65f.). This meaning is also appropriate for the grave inscription TL 80, in which it refers to people who have the right to be buried with the owner. However, the translation ‘to be related to’ advocated by Starke 1990a n. 1236 (following a personal communication of G. Neumann) and Lebrun 1999a:46f. takes the interpretation too far. Serangeli 2015a:384 translates the verb in this case with ‘to have no permission’, which is contextually appropriate, though not an accurate translation. The correct meaning ‘to stand/be close to, attend, follow’ is adopted by Melchert (DLL:86), Neumann 2007a:143, García Ramón 2016a:73f., Gehrisch 2018a:190, Melchert 2018b, Sasseville 2021a:56f. For an overview of the outdated literature, see Neumann 2007a:143.

[D.S.]

The verb xuwa-^(ti) is a factitive verb in -a-^(ti) derived from a non-attested derivational base *xuwa- (García Ramón 2016a:73f., Sasseville 2021a:56f.). See also Lyc. B xixba-^(ti).

[D.S.]

1. hrixuwãma-

1. Xuwata- (PN) (cf. Neumann 2007a:99, 143f., Kloekhorst 2008a:125, Christiansen 2020a:233 n. 272)

1. xixba-^(ti)

For the lemma head see Lyc. *xuwa-^(di).