ep(e)i-(di)
‘to give (vel sim.)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 3617
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
ep(e)i-(di)
‘to give (vel sim.)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is a hapax occurring in the obscure and somewhat fragmentary inscription TL 26 (cf. Bryce 1986a:89 n. 108).
[O.B.]
1.1.2Forms
| 3pl. pret. ind. act. | epeite | TL 26.19 (Tlos) |
Schürr 2012a:126 and Shevoroshkin 2002a:219 also adduce e[p]ide on TL 44a.41 as a 3sg. pret. ind. act. form belonging to this verb.
[O.B.]
1.1.3Meaning
Lyc. epeite occurs in the beginning of line 19, following only the unintelligible -eli, presumably the desinence of a word hidden in the broken off right part of the preceding line. This preceding line (18) contains the dative noun Trqqñti ‘to/for the Storm-god’ and the accusative wawã trisñni ‘three-year-old bovine’. The most straightforward analysis thus seems to be to analyze these noun phrases as constituents of the verb phrase governed by epeite. Accordingly, a translation ‘to give’ or similar as per Hajnal 1995a:150f. becomes reasonable. In light of a possible etymological explanation of the verb as a causative formation to the PIE root *h₁ep- ‘to take’ (cf. e.g. ap-(ti)), i.e. *h₁op-ei̯e/o-, this analysis is upgraded from reasonable to likely. Melchert (DLL:14) gives ‘levy (vel sim.)’ and Neumann 2007a:60 suggests something to the effect of ‘ordnen, vorbereiten, stiften’, but Hajnal’s analysis is taken as the most likely one here, especially in light of the convincing etymological argumentation.
[O.B.]
1.1.4Stem
The 3pl. pret. ind. act. form epeite unambiguously points to a leniting verbal stem in -(e)i-(di).
[O.B.]
For the lemma head, see Lyc. A ap-(ti).