tãmad(i)-

This lexeme is a hapax legomenon attested on the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, which is dated shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE.

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Pace Torp 1901a:18 and Neumann 1984b:95, the separation of the sequence tãmade into tãma + =de is not likely, because the enclitic particle =de is restricted to Wackernagel’s position.

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The substantive tãmade is modified by zxxazije ‘of the warriors’ and refers to the place, where spoils of war (Lyc. prulija-) are located. Scholars have come to the conclusion that it refers to some kind of building or monument, cf. Shevoroshkin 1988b:288, Lebrun 1990a:162, DLL:61. Since tãmad(i)- is surely a derivation in -ad(i)- from the base tãma- ‘house, building’, the semantics of ‘building complex’ (vel sim.) are appropriate. The analysis of Lebrun (Lebrun 1999a:47) as a 3sg. pret. act. to m̃ma(i)-^(di) is syntactically unpersuasive. Moreover, based on m̃maitẽ (N320.7), one would expect the 3sg. form to be *m̃made, without retention of the root vowel.

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The stem is here interpreted as containing the suffix -ad(i)-. It is possible that the instance tãmade is a collective (as advanced by DLL:61) instead of a count plural, although the difference can only be seen in the nominative and accusative case forms, which are not attested.

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