da-
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Palaic
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2573
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Palaic
da-
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a festival text preserved and on a fragment also belonging to a festival text.
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1.1.2Forms
| 1sg. pret. ind. act. | da-aḫ-ḫa | KBo 13.267 obv.? 6 | (CTH 753, NS) |
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | da-an-d[a | KBo 58.237, 5’ | (CTH 754, NS) |
Carruba 1970a:72 suggests tentatively that daḫḫa is a verbal form in the 1st person singular preterit; cf. Melchert 1994a:227. Since the context is fragmentary, the grammatical assignment must remain provisional.
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1.1.3Graphic Features
Checked against the photographs in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).
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1.1.4Meaning
Since the context is fragmentary, no meaning can be safely assigned, but from an etymological perspective, the root verb da- is likely to be connected to the PIE root *deh3- (see PAnat. *dóh3-/dh3-´) as in Hittite dā-/d-(ḫi) ‘to take’ (EDHIL:803), but this is not yet provable.
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