fišfid
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Class
- Base
- Grammar
- u
- ID
- 472
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
fišfid
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
The word fišfid is found in an inscription of Manisa roughly dated to the 5th or 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. or nom./acc. sg. n. | fišfid | LW 46a.3 (Manisa) |
1.1.3Meaning
Meriggi 1935a:82 equates fišfid with Lyd. wiswid ‘good’, which is completely ad hoc and phonologically unmotivated. The context in which fišfid occurs is obscure and fragmentary. No meaning can be offered; cf. Gusmani 1964a:127.
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1.1.4Stem
The word fišfid can be interpreted in two ways. It is either a verbal stem with a prefix fa-, i.e. f-išfi-(d), or neuter substantive (or adjective) of nominal stem fišf(i)- (< *fišw(i)-?).
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