uguwa-^(ti)

This lexeme is attested 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.).

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part. acc. sg. c.

uguwãmã

TL 44d.10 (Xanthos)

The ending -ã is a case of secondary agreement with the noun arm͂pã for expected *uguwãmi (DLL:133).

[D.S.]

The participle uguwãmã modifies arm͂pã ‘pillar (?)’, but without a proper etymological comparison, it is not possible to elucidate its semantics. Shevoroshkin 2002a:231 “suffering”, Shevoroshkin (apud Neumann 2007a:400) compares Hitt. wēk-/wekk-^(mi) ‘to want’ (phonologically unlikely; the letter g in uguwãmã is expected to go back to a lenited laryngeal), Shevoroshkin 2014a:251 “enraged”. Furthermore, it is not impossible that the first vowel u is the result of coloring, i.e. *agu- > ugu-; cf. Lyc. A e/urublije-.

[D.S.]

The participial ending in -ãme/i- points towards a factitive verb in -a-^(ti) (Sasseville 2021a:44-46).

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