*šāḫuid-
‘binding (?)’
- Language
- Cuneiform Luwian
- Grammar
- subst, n.
- ID
- 3108
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Cuneiform Luwian
*šāḫuid-
‘binding (?)’1.1.1Derivatives
šaḫwidara(/i)-2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
Melchert & Yakubovich 2022a:379 connects the reconstructed base *šāḫuid- with the PIE root *seh2- ‘to bind’ (see PAnat. *seh2-En-). They explain the lenition of the laryngeal via an accented o-grade, whose validity is still problematic (see ibid. with further literature). The root would be in this case followed by an adjectival u-stem, i.e. *šāḫ-u-, and an abstract formation in -id-, i.e. *šāḫuid-. Despite the attractivity of the scenario, its historical account (as well as the synchronic analysis of the derivatives) must be considered tentative until further evidence emerges.
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