ceši-
‘to take, collect (?)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2567
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
ceši-
‘to take, collect (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription that has not been dated accurately.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 1pl. pres. act. | cešwν | LW 13.4 (Sardis) |
1.1.3Meaning
Gusmani 1961a:180f. n. 19 suggests the meaning ‘to recover’ based on the context and adduces Hitt. daške/a-(mi) ‘to take (imperf.)’ as a cognate. The same etymological analysis is suggested by Sasseville 2021a:507, adducing evidence form the Lycian perspective, i.e. ze-(ti) ‘to take (in marriage), collect’. Moreover, Sasseville 2021a explains that it is only the stem ce- (Lyc. ze-) that is equivalent to Hitt. daške/a-(mi), whereas the suffix -ši- represents an inner-Lydian formation.
Regarding the syntax of the passage (LW 13.4), one should note that Gusmani 1961a and Sasseville 2021a take asfã=k as the direct object of cešwν, while Yakubovich regards it as an adverb; see under Lyd. asfãν.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
On the verbal suffix -ši-, see Sasseville 2021a:489, 505-509.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base, see Lyd. *ce-.