pu
‘or’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- part
- ID
- 2833
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
pu
‘or’1.1.1Transmission
The lexeme is attested once in a fragmentary inscription found in the Lower Hermos valley and broadly datable to the 5th-4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | puw(=) | LW 46.3 (Magnesia am Sipylos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
1.1.3.1Phonological Interpretation
Since the sequence -uw is not attested at the end of a Lydian phonetic word, the sequence puw in puw=as should be taken as a phonological variant of pu featuring glide insertion in front of the initial vowel of the following clitic (Gérard 2005a:61).
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1.1.4Meaning
As seen in Meriggi 1935a:82, the particle pu(w) is used here as a disjunctive pronoun, the function that is usually conveyed by its extended variant puk; cf. further under lemma.
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