trepe-

This lexeme is attested in the inscription of the inscribed pillar of Xanthos, 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.).

[D.S.]

3sg. pres. or pret. act.(?)

trepe

TL 44b.14 (Xanthos)

The word trepe is recovered from the sequence se=ñ[t^?]e=trepe (cf. Schürr 2005a:157 and Neumann 2007a:373 “señ[n]etrepe”), which speaks a priori for a verb in the 3sg. pres.(/pret.) with the synchronically unmarked ending -e.

[D.S.]

The verbal form trepe takes a direct object xbahñ ‘the one from Kyaneai’ and likely refers to the dynast Trbbẽnimi mentioned in the previous passage. The Lycian king may be the subject of the verb even without being mentioned explicitly. The remainder of the passage presupposes the repetition of the verb, i.e. se=nagurahi pu[namu]wahe trbbi trusñ se tuburehi stt[rat]ãni[da]he trbbi ẽñnei … “and Nagurahi, son of Punamuwa, (went/turned) against Trysa, and Tuburehi, son of Sttratãnida, (went/turned) against Ennei… Therefore, a meaning such as ‘to go/turn (against)’ is expected on contextual grounds; see further under Meaning. The suggestion of Melchert (DLL:70) that it could be related to trppeme and mean ‘three’ is contextually unsupported. Nothing is suggested in Gehrisch 2018a:69-71. A connection with Lyc. A trbbe-^(ti) ‘to tread on’ is tempting, but formally unclear due to the difference in quality between -p- and -bb-. Considering the approximate meaning ‘to go (against)’ or ‘to turn (against)’, a connection with Hitt. teripp-^(mi) ‘to plough’ derived from Proto-Indo-European *trep- ‘to turn’ (Gk. τρέπω ‘to turn’, Lat. trepō ‘to turn’, Skt. trapate ‘is ashamed’) is highly attractive and would be phonologically more adequate.

[D.S.]

The Lycian verb belongs to the stems in -e-^(ti) and would go back to a root verb of the ḫi-conjugation.

[D.S.]