xawari

This word is found within a long biographical inscription dated to shortly after 330 BCE, i.e. to the reign of Alexander the Great.

[D.S.]

dat. sg.(?)

xawari

TL 29.14 (Tlos)

The word appears right after a lacuna, i.e. [ … ]xawari, which means that it may be incomplete (cf. DLL:81, Neumann 2007a:113, Tekoğlu 2006a). However, the attested form can certainly represent a full word in its own right.

[D.S.]

The word xawari seems to agree with pddãti ‘place’, but considering the considerable number of options inherent in the Lycian ending -i, this cannot be considered assured. Yet due to the lack of vowel harmony, positing a stem in -e/i- is not a convincing option, because a putative stem **xawa-re/i- should have yielded **xewere/i- because of vowel harmony. Thus, the lack of vowel harmony speaks for a stem xawara- c., in which case xawari would be a dative singular. An etymological connection with xawa- c. ‘sheep’ and xawale- c. ‘?’ is tempting, but cannot be proven due to the fragmentary state of the context in which xawari is attested.

[D.S.]