nure/i-

This lexeme is attested in the non-sepulchral inscription TL 26 and in N 320, the Letoon trilingual inscription, most commonly dated to 337 BCE, the first year of the Achaemenid king Arses, during the reign of the Carian satrap Pixodaros (Badian 1977a:49f, Bryce 1986a:48f, Keen 1998a:10, Wagner 2011a:156).

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abl./instr.	nuredi	TL 26.16 (Tlos)
		N 320.26-27 (Xanthos)

In both instances, nuredi occurs twice in immediate succession, i.e. as nuredi nuredi. The form is thus in fact attested four times rather than twice.

[O.B.]

On the trilingual N 320, nuredi nuredi corresponds to Greek κατ’ ἐκάστην νουμηνίαν ‘on the first day of every lunar month’. Accordingly, the nure/i- means ‘new moon’, both times occurring in an āmreḍita-like construction nuredi nuredi with the sense ‘at each new moon’ (similarly also in Gusmani 1975e:69-71, Carruba 1977a:309, Laroche 1979c:72, Starke 1990a:116 n. 339a, Hajnal 1995a:132, Neumann 1996a:4 n. 10, DLL:44, Neumann 2007a:245, although a less specific translation ‘month’ is sometimes preferred). This translation is also appropriate on TL 26, where the predicate of the sentence is kumezeiti ‘they shall sacrifice’.

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The stem underlying nuredi is often analyzed as a compound with the first member equivalent to Hitt. nēwa- ‘new’ and the second to Luw. /ar(i)-/ ‘time’ and potentially also Lyc. B ar(i)- (similarly Gusmani 1975e:69-71, Starke 1990a:116 n. 339a, Hajnal 1995a:132, Neumann 1996a:4 n. 10). Provided that the etymological analysis is correct, an i-mutating common gender stem nure/i- most likely underlies nuredi in light of Luw. /ar(i)-/, although the stem type is not transparently determinable solely on the basis of the attested abl./instr. form (“stem vowel indeterminable” in DLL:44). Accordingly, the stem nure/i- given in the lemma heading is based on external evidence.

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