pddãt(i)-

This lexeme is found in the grave inscription TL 29, which is datable to the reign of Alexander the Great, as well as in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos (TL 44), 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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dat./loc. sg.	pddãti	TL 29.6 (Tlos)
		TL 29.14 (Tlos)
		TL 44c.5 (Xanthos)
	pddãt[i]	TL 44b.1 (Xanthos)
	pddati	TL 29.7 (Tlos)
	pdḍạtị	TL 29.6 (Tlos)
dat./loc. pl.	pddẽtẹ	TL 149.15 (Rhodiapolis)
gen. adj. dat. sg.	pddãtahi	TL 44b.52 (Xanthos)

Contra Schürr 2012a:128 n. 14, who sees pddãti as a 3pl. pres. verbal form, see under Meaning.

The occasional nasal reduction from pddãti → pddati is a regular phenomenon in Lycian.

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For the reading pddãti instead of pddẽti at TL 29.14, see Tekoğlu 2006a:1706. For a new collation of the inscription TL 149, see Christiansen 2020a:224f., although we do not interpret pddẽte as pddẽ=te, like she does, but rather as a unitary word, i.e. pddẽte se ebei ‘in the places and here’; see also pddẽ.

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Laroche 1967a:61f. compares the expression malijahi pddãti (TL 44c.5) with Greek ἐν καθαρῶι τεμένει (TL 44c.22), both of which refer to a place where steles are to be set up. Thus, he deduces that pddãti may refer to a temenos and, since trqqñti pddãtahi is contextually expected to mean ‘for the local Storm-god’, the general meaning ‘place, locality’ was assigned to pddãt(i)- (more explicitly Gusmani 1979c:231f., Melchert 2000b:69, Cau 2003b:51f. n. 3 and Neumann 2007a:259f. all with further literature). Neumann 1983b:128 further compared the root of Lyc. pdd-ãt(i)- with Hitt. pēda- n. ‘place’ (contra Laroche 1967a:61f. and Laroche 1979c:61), which brought additional evidence (followed by Melchert in DLL:47). For the meaning of pddãti ‘place’ in TL 29, see Sasseville 2021a:158, 418 and cf. Gehrisch 2018a:39.

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The Lycian word pddãt(i)- represents a substantivized formation in -nt(i)- (Melchert 2000b:69, Hajnal 1995a:183, contra Yakubovich 2017c:9f.) derived from the noun pddẽ(n)- n. ‘place’, before it was transferred to the n-stems (cf. Hitt. pēda- n.). Differently, Hajnal 1994a:145 assumes a substantivization in -a-, i.e. pddãta- c. (likewise Yakubovich 2017c:9), which is unlikely in view of the loc. sg. in -i. If it were a stem in -a, we would expect to see the regular loc. sg. ending in -a. On the gen. adj. in -ahe/i- with original consonantal stems, see Sasseville 2018a:315f.

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1. †pddãti(je)-

For the lemma head see Lyc. pddẽ(n)-.