sfẽni-^(t)

This verb is found in two decrees composed by the Persian priest Mitridaštas, whose activities in Sardis have been recently dated to the second half of the 6^th century BCE (Euler & Sasseville 2019a:134f. n. 34). It is also found in the funerary inscription LW 80, which has been dated by Gusmani 1975b:12, 53 to the 4^th century BCE on paleographic grounds.

[D.S.]

1sg. pres. act.	fasfẽnu	LW 23.8 (Sardis)
		LW 23.14 (Sardis)
		LW 24.19 (Sardis)
1pl. pres. act.	fasfẽnwν	LW 13.8 (Sardis)
inf.	fakansfẽnal	LW 80.11 (Sardis)

For the function of the preverb kan- in fakansfẽnal ‘to confer ownership’, see Gusmani 1975b:20. Contra Gusmani 1975b ibid. (and Schürr 2000b:124), the ending -al is not the 3^rd sg. pret. but the infinitive of the verbal stem class in -i-^(t), for which see the references under Stem.

[D.S.]

The meaning ‘to own’ has been assigned on contextual grounds and generally accepted (Sturtevant 1925a:70, Sayce 1925a:36, Meriggi 1935a:72, Gusmani 1964a:122, Dusinberre 2003a:230f., Gérard 2005a:128, Euler & Sasseville 2019a:132f., Sasseville 2021a:522f.). For further information on the semantics of this root, see the other derivatives of the verbal base *sfa-.

[D.S.]

Sasseville 2021a:522f. interprets Lyd. sfẽni-^(t) as a verbal formation in -ẽni-^(t) derived from the non-attested verbal base *sfa-. For the paradigm of verbs in -ẽni-^(t), see Sasseville 2021a:521 and cf. Gérard 2005a:109.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head Lyd. *sfa-.