šapi-(d)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2636
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
šapi-(d)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in an inscription inscribed on a marble stele that cannot be dated accurately.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pret. act. | fašapid | LW 46.2 (Magnesia on Mt. Sipylos) |
It is was rightly recognized by Meriggi 1935a:77f. as a transitive verbal form: a]λad dẽt nid fašapid qi[š] ‘He will not fašapid any other mobile wealth, the one who…’ (Gusmani 1960a:285 n. 40).
[D.S.]
1.1.3Graphic Features
The word-medial p could perhaps be read as f instead (both letters are very similar in shape), although no doubts were brought up by Buckler 1924a:64. A collation of the inscription would be necessary to verify the reading.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
No meaning has been assigned (Gusmani 1964a:121, Gusmani 1980a:86). Yakubovich (pers. comm.) suggests the meaning ‘to touch (?)’, which is possible but hardly provable. The Lydian root šap- (or šaf-?) recalls CLuw. *šapi(ya)- ‘to scrub’, although this does not provide a satisfactory semantic approach. For the context, see under Forms.
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1.1.5Stem
Based on the verbal suffix -i- of the lenited conjugation, we may be dealing with a causative-iterative (see Sasseville 2021a:241f.) or a deradical verb in -i-(d) (see Sasseville 2021a:330f.).
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