xuzrñt(i)-

This lexeme is attested on TL 44, the pillar of Xanthos, dated stylistically to around 400 BCE and contextually to shortly after the ascension of the Persian emperor Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

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nom./acc. pl. n. or coll.	xuzrñta	TL 44d.8 (Xanthos)
gen. adj. acc. sg. c.	xuzrñtasi{si}	TL 44c.61-62 (Xanthos)

For the emendation of xuzrñtasisi to xuzrñtasi, see Gusmani 1964c:47 n. 22 and Gusmani 1968c:16 (followed in DLL:137, Schürr 2016d:179).

[O.B.]

The meaning of Lyc. B xuzrñt(i)- is obscure, as are the passages in which the word appears. In one instance xuzrñt(i)- belongs to Gergis (xuzrñta xerigasa, TL 44d.8) and in the other the gen. adj. of the word modifies the likewise obscure xrbblata- (xuzrñtasi xrbblatã, TL 44c.61-62). Some semantic relationship to the most likely radically connected adjective xuzrwãt(i)- ‘having xuzr-‘ is expected, but the meaning of this word is likewise obscure and contingent on the meaning of the unattested base *xuzr-. Based on the usage of xuzrwãt(i)-, *xuzr- could possibly denote some type of fruit growing on vines, but this hardly leads to any obvious semantic analysis of xuzrñt(i)-.

Neumann 2007a:144 tentatively suggests that xuzñt(i)- means ‘Heldentaten’ and Shevoroshkin 2014a:137 provides the translation ‘protector’, but both accounts lack in depth analysis and are impossible to verify.

[O.B.]

The stem type of Lyc. B xuzrñt(i)- is unclear. Either the word is neuter, in which case xuzrñta should be analyzed as nom./acc. pl., or common gender, in which case the form is nom./acc. coll. In either case, an original consonantal stem should be posited on account of the gen. adj. form xuzrñtasi (cf. trqqñtase/i-, the gen. adj. of the Storm-god Trqqñt-, see also Norbruis 2021a:119f.). The word is likely formed to an unattested base *xuzr-, a property most likely shared by the adjective xuzrwãt(i)- ‘having xuzr-‘. Whereas the formation in -nt(i)- may have been adjectival at first, at least the gen. adj. clearly indicates substantivization.

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