šaλre-(d)
‘to look, walk down (vel sim.) (?)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3139
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
šaλre-(d)
‘to look, walk down (vel sim.) (?)’1.1.1Transmission
This verb is found in a metrical inscription that has not yet been dated accurately.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| 2sg. pres. act. | kaτaλreš | LW 5.2 (Sardis) |
Heubeck 1959a:60f. recognizes on both comparative and contextual grounds the verbal ending of the 2sg. pres., i.e. -š (tentatively adopted by Gusmani 1964a:148, Melchert 1994a:337 and Gérard 2005a:99 and reaffirmed by Sasseville 2021a:211f. and 184, 189 for -oš). The verb obviously consists of the preverb kat- ‘down’ and šaλre- (cf. Heubeck 1959a:61, Gusmani 1964a:148).
[D.S.]
1.1.3Meaning
On contextual grounds, Heubeck 1959a.60f. suggests the meaning ‘to look, walk down (Germ. ‘sich hinwenden’); kud kaτaλreš ‘Where you look/turn to, (there is)…’. This suggestion has been considered very attractive (Gusmani 1964a:148, Melchert 1994a:337 ‘to look/walk down’, Gérard 2005a:99, Sasseville 2021a:211f., outdated Zgusta 1955a:528), although definite proof is still lacking. To our knowledge, no Anatolian cognate has been suggested.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Stem
Sasseville 2021a:207, 211f. assumes a denominative verb in -e-(d) derived from a nominal base *šaλre-, which would contain a formation in -re- c. (cf. qišre-(d)). The base of the formation in -re-, i.e. šaλ-, could go back to a Pre-Lydian sequence *šali-, *šari-, *šadi- or even *šani-, see Sasseville 2021e.
[D.S.]