kro-(d)
‘(unknown)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 836
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
kro-(d)
‘(unknown)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a metrical inscription from Manisa, dated roughly to the 5th or 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | ḍakrod | LW 44a.4 (Manisa) |
1.1.3Meaning
Brandenstein 1931b:43f. suggests that the Lydian verb dakro- can also found in the Lydian gloss in Greek transmission βαστι-ζακρο-λεα (Hesychius), which means ‘move quickly!’. On that basis, he suggests that Lyd. kro- means ‘to come’, which is not borne out in the Lydian context. His comparative analysis is summarized and criticized in Sh. Hawkins 2013a:158-162. The context, in which the word dakrod is found, is obscure and fragmentary. No meaning can be offered; cf. Gusmani 1964a:95.
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2. Reconstruction
2.1Reconstruction
Sh. Hawkins 2013a:161 suggests a Proto-Anatolian back-projection of kro-(d) as *Krou̯áHi̯e/o- but concedes that there is no Proto-Indo-European root of the shape *Krou̯- with semantics of movement. No etymology possible.
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