mrssxa-(ti)
‘to desecrate, offend’
- Language
- Lycian B
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 2866
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian B
mrssxa-(ti)
‘to desecrate, offend’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested 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.).
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. ind. act. | mrssxati | TL 44d.24 (Xanthos) |
1.1.3Meaning
The verb mrssxa-(ti) (a derivative of mrssxã attested in the same context) takes mar[ãz] ‘the laws’ as direct object. Shevoroshkin 1971a:210 and Carruba 1980a:291f. propose for the verb and its derivational base a convincing etymological connection with Hitt. maršaḫḫ-(ḫi) ‘to desecrate, falsify’, (followed by DLL:121, Melchert 2015c:161 n. 7, Gehrisch 2018a:90, Sasseville 2021a:47f.). For the Lycian B verb, the same meaning ‘to desecrate, offend’ is also contextually supported.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
The verb mrsxxa-(ti) is a factitive verb derived from the noun mrssxa- (Melchert 2015c:161, Sasseville 2021a:48).
[D.S.]
For the derivational base, see Lyc. B mrssxa- and the lemma head see Lyc. *mrssa-.