šawtari-(d)
‘to protect’
- Language
- Lydian
- Class
- Derivative
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 261
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
šawtari-(d)
‘to protect’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax legomenon attested in the temenos inscription LW 23.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | šawtarid | LW 23.7 (Sardis) |
1.1.3Meaning ‘to serve as protector, to protect’
Brandenstein 1931b:23 identifies šawtarid as a verbal form based on the syntax of the passage. Gusmani 1961a:177f. suggests carefully the meaning ‘to protect’, which he recovers from the context. The semantic approach of Gusmani receives additional evidence from the linguistic perspective. Melchert 1992a:40 interprets šawtaar- as an agent noun in -tar- from the root *šaw- ‘to see’, i.e. ‘watcher, protector’, and then šawtari- as a denominative in -i-(d) from the agent noun. The meaning is taken over by Gérard 2005a:107. Haas 1962a:177 n. 28 had already assumed a derivative of šawtaar- and a similar meaning based on a hazardous approach.
[D.S.]
For the base of the derivative see šawtaar-.