pdura(i)-(di)
‘to carry (off)’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2565
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
pdura(i)-(di)
‘to carry (off)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE ([
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. act. | pduradi | TL 44c.46 (Xanthos) | |
| TL 44c.53 (Xanthos) | |||
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | [pd]urade | TL 44d.17 (Xanthos) |
Contra Gehrisch 2018a:86, who takes pduradi as an ablative/instrumental form.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Bugge 1901a:66 suggests restoring [pd]urade in analogy to the verbal form pduradi (followed by Gusmani 1968c:17, Eichner 1993a:150, Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:25, Melchert (DLL:124), Schürr 2016d:167, Sasseville 2021a:101). Schürr 2018b:62 confirms that the oblique break of the edge harmonizes with the restoration of the letter d before u.
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1.1.4Meaning
The meaning ‘to bring’ has been suggested on contextual grounds by Shevoroshkin 2002a:129 (and Shevoroshkin 2014a:257) and adopted by Melchert (DLL:124). Sasseville 2021a:101f. Slightly modifies the meaning to ‘to carry (off)’, since the verb refers to an action in relation to things such as the small livestock that are being carried off by the Lycian king as tributes. He brings further support by adducing Hitt. pēda-(ḫi) ‘to take somewhere, carry’ as an etymological cognate.
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1.1.5Stem
Sasseville 2021a:101f. interprets pduradi and [pd]urade as verbal forms of a denominative verb in -a(i)-(di). As nominal base, he posits a formation in -ur-a- (< *-u̯er/n- + -eh2-) derived from the cognate of Hitt. pēda-(ḫi) (for the abstract noun in -war-, see the form pé-e-tum-mar in CHD P:345f.), which goes back to a univerbation of the preverb pē and the root verb dā-/d-(ḫi) ‘to take’, which can be posited for Proto-Anatolian.
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For the lemma head see PAnat. *dóh3-/dh3-´.