ddewi-(ti)
‘to make a gift (?)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2571
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
ddewi-(ti)
‘to make a gift (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a grave inscription.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. ind. act. | ddewite | TL 21.3-4 (Tlos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
Eichner 2007a restores a letter between the two dd and reads tlawad[i]=d(e) ewite, which is not syntactically persuasive. Furthermore, his interpretation of ewite as 3sg. pret. of the unlenited conjugation from the verb matching Luw. awī-(di) ‘to come’, which belongs to the lenited conjugation, is linguistically unacceptable.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
Melchert (DLL:10) interprets ddewi-(ti) as a denominative verb derived from ddewe- ‘gift’ and thus translates it as ‘to make a gift to’ (followed by Sasseville 2021a:159; contra Eichner 2007a, Gehrisch 2018a:29). This is morphologically supported and contextually convincing.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
For the Lycian stem class in -i-(ti), see Sasseville 2021a:153f.
[D.S.]
For the derivational base, see Lyc. A ddewe-.