ẽntarfλo-

The only attestation of this adjective is found in the introductory formula of a poetic inscription emanating from the cemetery of Sardis and datable to the 5^th or 4^th century BCE.

[I.Y.]

nom. sg. n.

ẽntarfλod

LW 12.1 (Sardis)

Differently Melchert 1997b:136, who ultimately followed Brandenstein 1929a:275, taking both ẽntarfλod and its cognate pλtarwod as 3pl. pres. verbal forms. For the critique of this approach, cf. pλtarwo-.  

[I.Y.]

The introductory clause of LW 12 features mru- ‘stele’ and a personal name. We know from the opening formulae of several other Lydian inscriptions composed in prose (e.g. LW 1-3, 10) that they establish the possession of the stele with the help of nominal sentences. The same analysis imposes itself in our case, except that LW 12 prefers a construction with a predicative adjective governing a dative complement, in lieu of the ubiquitous possessive adjectives. The present analysis is that of Gusmani 1964a:107, who follows Vetter 1959a in morphological matters.

[I.Y.]

Synchronically, this is an o-stem, accented on the vowel. The contrast with ši-tarfλo- leads to the secure segmentation of the prefix ẽn-. The contrast with pλ-tarwo- would suggest at segmenting the suffix ‑λo-, deriving adjectives from nouns. It seems, however, at least equally likely that the actual historical suffix was ‑wλo-, as in ca-wλo-, which underwent changes at the morpheme boundary, but cf. under Lyd. cawλo-.

[I.Y.]