xuzruwãt(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.).

[O.B.]

nom./acc. pl. n.	xuzruwãta	TL 44d.56 (Xanthos)
acc. pl. c.	xuzruwẽtiz	TL 44c.53 (Xanthos)

Note the front umlaut in the acc. pl. c. form xuzruwẽtiz, triggered by the following ending -iz.

[O.B.]

Lyc. B xuzruwãt(i)- is attested modifying waxssa (TL 44d.56) and tuburiz (TL 44c.53). According to Sasseville 2021d, these words denote ‘bread’ and ‘vines’ respectively. Analyzing xuzruwãt(i)- as an adjective derived with the suffix -wãt(i)- (see Stem), a basic meaning ‘having xuzr-‘ is probable (per Sasseville ‘full of xuzr-‘, per Schürr 2016d:179 ‘xuzr-reich’). The meaning of xuzruwãt(i)- is thus crucially dependent on the meaning of the unattested base *xuzr- (but cf. xuzrñt(i)-). Since specifically bread and vines have xuzr-, a reasonable guess would be that the word denotes some sort of fruit growing on vines (e.g. ‘olives’, ‘dates’, ‘grapes’, etc.), but this is unverifiable and difficult to reconcile with any tentative etymological connection to xustte/i- ‘fire (?)’ (with s > z when preceding a resonant, assumed in DLL:137, Schürr 2016d:179).

The translation as a verb meaning ‘schützen’ found in Meriggi 1937a:514 is outdated.

[O.B.]

Lyc. B xuzruwãt(i)- is an i-mutating adjective formed with the suffix *-u̯ent- to an unattested base *xuzr- (cf. Gusmani 1964c:47, Neumann 1962a:210, DLL:137, Schürr 2016d:179).

[O.B.]