prñnawa-^(ti)

This lexeme is well attested across the Lycian corpus, notably in grave inscriptions.

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3sg. pres. act.	prñnawati	TL 109.6 (Limyra)
		TL 111.6 (Limyra)
	pr!ñnawati	TL 110.3 (Limyra)
1sg. pret. act.	prñnawaxã	TL 40c.8 (Xanthos)
3sg. pret. act.	prñnawate	TL 62.1 (Isinda)
		TL 44a.22 (Xanthos)
		TL 98.1 (Limyra)
		TL 99.1 (Limyra)
		TL 116.1 (Limyra)
		TL 133.1 (Limyra)
		TL 150.3 (Rhodiapolis)
		N 315.1 (Seyret)
		N 351.2 (Beybonak)
	prñnawatẽ	TL 3.1 (Telmessos)
		TL 5.2 (Telmessos)
		TL 7.1 (Karmylessos)
		TL 8.1 (Karmylessos)
		TL 11.1 (Pinara)
		TL 68.1 (Simena)
	prñnaẉetẽ	TL 13.2 (Pinara)
3pl. pret. act.	prñnawãtẽ	TL 6.1 (Karmylessos)
	prñnewãtẽ	TL 12.1 (Pinara)
	prñn[awãtẽ]	N 317.1 (Limyra)
	prñnaw!ã{:}[te]	N 336.1 (Pinara)

For the 3sg. pret. act., only a selection of attestations is cited in the table.

On the vowel -e- in prñnewãtẽ, see Melchert 1992b:50.

[D.S.]

In the bilingual inscriptions TL 6, TL 23 and TL 117, the Lycian verb prñnawa-^(ti) is rendered with Greek ἐργάσαντο ‘they fabricated’, κατεσκευ[άσα]το ‘he furnished, constructed’, and ἐποιήσατο ‘he made’ respectively and has mostly been translated accordingly (thus Thomsen 1899a:39, Meriggi 1936b:272, Houwink ten Cate 1961a:97, Carruba 1978b:170f., Melchert in DLL:51, Neumann 2007a:284, Christiansen 2020a:243, Sasseville 2021a:50; faulty Laroche 1974b:130 “aménager sa demeure” and Starke 1990a:538 “zum Wohnsitz machen”). Differently, Gusmani 1962a:173 translates prñnawa-^(ti) with ‘zu seinem Eigentum machen’ using the passage of TL 111, 5-7 and a comparison with Hitt./Luw. parnawaiške/a-^(mi) ‘to make into the property of the royal house’. This is, however, an overinterpretation of the synchronic meaning of the verb, which has surely undergone semantic change from its original meaning, i.e. morphematically ‘to make sth. equate to a house’; see under Stem.

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The verb prñnawa-^(ti) is a factitive verb derived from the noun prñnawa- c. ‘grave-house’, i.e. ‘to make a grave-house’ (cf. Lyc. B qla-^(ti)) → ‘to build (a grave-house)’ (Melchert 1992b:48, Hajnal 1995a:131, Melchert 1997b:132, but for the conversion process, see Sasseville 2015a, Sasseville 2021a:50f.). However, from a historical perspective, before the words in question came to be applied to rock-carved graves, the word prñnawa-^(ti) would have simply meant ‘to make sth. equate to a house’ (← prñnawa- c. ‘that which equates to a house’ or ‘that which has the status of a house’).

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For the lemma head, see Lyc. A prñna(?).