uwadraxi-
‘cattle sacrifice’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Class
- Compound
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 295
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
uwadraxi-
‘cattle sacrifice’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is attested on the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, which is dated shortly after the ascension of Artaxerxes II in 405-404 BCE.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| nom. sg. | uwadraxi | TL 44a.33 (Xanthos) |
The interpretation of uwadraxi (TLL 44a.33) as nominative singular is based on the one of ese as the verb ‘to be’ in the 3rd person singular preterit in the same sentence, i.e. me uwadraxi : ese : przze[…] ‘Then, there was a cattle sacrifice for the primeval (gods)’; cf. Schürr 2012c:10.
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
Hajnal 1994a:137 n. 5 interprets uwadraxi- as a form related to wawadra- and suggests on contextual grounds the meaning ‘cattle sacrifice’ (likewise DLL:77, Shevoroshkin 2011b:142 n. 1, Schürr 2012c:10). The uwadraxi is mentioned immediately after the syntagm xistte wawadra (TL 44a.32) ‘he sacrificed a herd of cattle (vel sim.)’.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
Contra Hajnal 1994a:137, uwadraxi- cannot be a derivative in -axi- related to the Cuneiform Luwian suffix -aḫi(t)-, because the lenited laryngeal -ḫ- is expected to yield Lycian -g-. Moreover, there would be no other evidence for a Lycian suffix **-axi-. Instead, it is interpreted as a compound of wawadra- ‘herd of cattle (vel sim.)’ + xi- ‘sacrifice’ (DLL:77).
[D.S.]
For the first member of the coumpound see Lyc. A wawadra- and for the second see Lyc. xe/i-.