hha-^(ti)

This lexeme is attested in the trilingual inscription of the Letoon dated to 337 BCE (Wagner 2011a:156 with further literature).

[D.S.]

3sg. pres. act.

hhati

N 320.41 (Xanthos)

Contra Melchert 1999c:76 who takes hhati as a denasalized 3pl. pres. to ha-^(di) ‘to release’. Considering the reduplicated formation, it is likely that the verb originally belonged to the ḫi-conjugation, whose outcome would be a Lycian verb in -ti (see Sasseville 2021a:60, 307), see also the base ha-^(ti) beside ha-^(di). Nonetheless, the verb can still be translated impersonally, i.e. ‘one will …’.

[D.S.]

The phrase Pigesereje me=i=eseri=hhati me=hriqla asñne pzziti=ti corresponds to Greek Πιξώταρος δὲ κύριος ἔστω ‘Pixodaros will have the authority’, which makes the sense of the passage clear but not necessarily the sense of each Lycian word. Laroche 1979c:76 translates tentatively eseri hhati with ‘to disobey’ and a summary of several different translations are summarized in Neumann 1998b, who himself suggests that eseri hhati means ‘to transfer (rights)’. Melchert 1999c accepts Neumann’s translation comparing Latin deferre and thus Engl. ‘to defer, confer (power)’. Gusmani 2010a:68 likewise accepts Neumann’s translation but offers an awkward syntactic interpretation. For the syntax of the passage, see the best analysis by Melchert 1999c (see also Melchert 2018c and Melchert 2021a:352), i.e. Pigesereje me=i=eseri=hhati me=hriqla asñne pzziti=ti ‘One will defer to Pixodaros and the acropolis (lit. the high precinct) is to carry out what he instructs.’

[D.S.]

For the verbal stem class, see Sasseville 2021a:60, 307.

[D.S.]

For the lemma head see ha-^(ti).