ebudi

This lexeme is found once in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91) and perhaps also in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, dated contextually to shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE and stylistically to around 400 BCE (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:19f.).

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indecl. (?)	(e)budi	TL 55.1 (Antiphellos)
	[eb]udi	TL 44c.39-40 (Xanthos)

Melchert (DLL:114) suggests tentatively that ebudi is a verb conjugated in the 3sg. pres. act. of the lenited mi-conjugation. The segmentation of me=(e)budi=ke is generally accepted, except that Schürr 2005a:134 restores the vowel a, i.e. me=(a)budi=ke, without any justification (likewise Shevoroshkin 2002a:220, who even translates the word as ‘he stops’. Furthermore, Schürr 2005acalls attention to a similar form attested in Lycian A, i.e. [.]budi (TL 44b.4) and we add seb[..]udi at TL 44c.39-40 (contra Shevoroshkin 2011a:30, who reconstructs [k]udi). Eichner 2005a:25 suggests as new alternative a nominal form, from which the word ebuθis- (a punishing agent) would have been derived; cf. ebuθis-.

A different approach would be to see a local adposition, i.e. eb-udi ‘here’ (built in analogy to kudi ‘where’), which the subordinate clause introduced by kudi ‘where’ would resolve, i.e.

m(e)=ebudi=ke : prijẽ : meri : zipsse : kudi : s[.....]xa : q[....]nepdi (TL 55.1)

‘And here …, where I …-ed, he …-s.’

This would provide a coherent syntax of the passage and allow the last word q[…]nepdi of the clause to be taken as the finite verb. Nonetheless, since the meaning of several words in this sentence is obscure, any suggestion must be considered highly tentative.

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