kaττadmẽ-
‘approval (vel sim.)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- subst, c.
- ID
- 3505
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
kaττadmẽ-
‘approval (vel sim.)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is once in a poetic inscription found at the Sardis cemetery and datable to the 5th or 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| nom. or acc. pl. | kaττadmẽs | LW 10.8 (Sardis) |
It is uncertain whether kaττadmẽs should be interpreted as subject or direct object, but in either case its plural interpretation is assured on morphosyntactic grounds.
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1.1.3Meaning
The noun kaττadmẽ- represents the synchronic derivative of kaττi- ‘to approve (vel sim.)’, therefore the meaning ‘decree’ (vel sim.) is the default solution. Within the context, it seems to be modified by the adjective ciwνal(i)-, which suggests that we are dealing with some sort of divine instructions (cf. Melchert 2004b:141). The earlier suggestion ‘lower inscription’ (Gusmani 1964a:149) predicated upon the presumed genetic relationship of Lyd. kaττadmẽ- and šadmẽ- and cannot be maintained as long as one separates these nouns (cf. šadmẽ-).
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1.1.4Stem
The stem kaττadmẽ- is derived with the suffix -mẽ- from the base *kat-šad-; cf. Melchert 2004b:141f., Yates 2021a.
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