hqqdaime/i-

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.).

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abl./instr.

hqqdaime[d]i

TL 44a.37-38 (Xanthos)

The full reading of the word has become possible thanks to a join made by Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:133-143. The earlier reading and restoration as hqq[ad]i[jed]i (Borchhardt & Eichner 1997-1999a:22; cf. also Schürr 2009a:158 for the reading hqqda- instead of hqqad-) is now outdated, and the assumed stem in -i(je)- is therefore void.

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The word hqqdaimedi is together with padrãtahedi a further attribute of esbedi ‘with horses’. It has been compared to the personal name Ahqqadi in the grave inscription TL 36.2 (Laroche 1960a:169, Melchert in DLL:24, Neumann 2007a:6 with references to the 19^th century literature), which is possible, although aphaeresis and syncope are required for the adjectival (or participial) formation hqqdaime/i-.Untenable analyses in Korolev & Shevoroshkin 1969a:537 and Schürr 2014a:750. For hqqdaimedi, Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:137 suggest contextually the meaning ‘with excellence’, which is a mere guess and not independently supported. Gehrisch 2018a:64 proposes an etymological connection with Hitt. šakk-/šekk-^(ḫi) ‘to know’ and translates the word hqqdaime/i- with ‘allowed, supported’. Her etymological connection is not supported by the phonology, since Lyc. -q- is a labio-velar, and is therefore rejected. The word is left untranslated by Cau 1999c:26 and no meaning is offered here either.

[D.S.]

The attribute hqqdaime/i- is either a participle to a denominative verb hqqda(i)-^(di) (Schürr & Dönmez 2015a:143) or a possessive formation in -aime/i- derived directly from the non-attested substantival base.

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