agaman

This lexeme is found in an incantation of the Palaic festival text.

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Checked against the photograph in the Konkordanz (Mainzer Fotoarchiv).

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The word agaman is attested in a fragmentary passage and, thus, it meaning cannot be elucidated based on the context; cf. Carruba 1970a:49. Carruba 1972a:7 suggests that it is a participial form of a verb *aga- meaning ‘to go’ relating it to panāga- ´to depart´. However, this cannot be maintained based our morphological analysis; see under the lemma panāga-. No semantic assignment is offered here for agaman.

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The word agaman most likely represents a neuter stem in -man- (thus Kammenhuber 1959a:25). A different possibility would be an adjectival suffix in -ma-; cf. Melchert 1994a:214. A participial suffix in -mma- is only possible, if agaman stands for aga<m>man (pace Carruba 1972a:7). Any interpetation at this stage must be considered tentative and, thus, it is best ot leave the morphological interpreation of the word open.

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No etymology possible.

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