gara-

The lexeme gara- is attested once on the Xanthos Stele, which was inscribed shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE.

[D.S.]

gen. pl.

garãi

TL 44b.62 (Xanthos)

The suggestion by Ševoroškin (apud Neumann 2007a:87) to change the separation of ebeija garãi into ebeij agarãi is lexically possible as well. In this case, the subject of the verb sitẽni ‘lie’ would be absent from the clause. However, the current separation is more likely based on the interpretation of the demonstrative pronoun ebeija ‘these’ in the nominative plural neuter, which would refer to the aforementioned monuments (Melchert 1992c:195).

[D.S.]

The meaning of the word was elucidated by Shevoroshkin 2011a:34 and Melchert 2014g:68, who take it as a loanword from Gk. ἀγορά ‘gathering place, agora’. For the aphaeresis, Melchert compares the personal name tẽnegure rendering Gk. Ἄθηναγόρας. Furthermore, he equates the syntagma garãi zeusi with nelezẽ trqqñt- ‘Storm-god of the agoras’ (N 324.8). For the elucidation of the Lycian syntagma nelezẽ trqqñt-, see Neumann 2007a:239. For earlier semantic approaches, see Meriggi 1936b:274, Stoltenberg 1955a:41, 75.

[D.S.]

The Greek stem in /-ā-/ is rendered here by a Lycian a-stem.

[D.S.]

The Lycian lexeme gara- c. is a loanword from Greek ἀγορά (Melchert 2014g:68).

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