madra-^(ti)

This word is found in the poetical inscription engraved on the lion sarcophagus of Antiphellos, dated on stylistic grounds to the beginning of the 4^th century BCE (Zahle 1979a:318, Mühlbauer 2007a:91).

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It is agreed that the word madrane should represent an infinitive comparable to the Lyc. A infinitives in -ãne (DLL:120, Schürr 2005a:143, Shevoroshkin 2015a:200, Gehrisch 2018a:108). For the first sentence of the poem to make sense syntactically, one has to assume an accusative-infinitive construction, in which the accusative plural pleliz… lijaiz ‘the nymphs of Phellos’ is the subject of the infinitive verb madrane.

[eb]ạṇ̃ṇu­ : mlu=t(e)=ene welputi : pixre : lijenuwi : pleliz : madrane : wirasajaja tm͂qrẽ : lijaiz (TL 55.1)

‘This votive offering here, Pigres welpu-s it to the nymphaeum, so that the nymphs of Phellos may madrane the wirasajaja tm͂qrẽ.’

The semantics of the verb have so far remained unclear. Shevoroshkin 2015a:193 suggests the meaning ‘to delight, welcome’, derived from an etymological connection with the Indo-European root *med- ‘to become full, be drunk’ (LIV²:423f.), which is possible, but very speculative. As long as the meaning of the direct object of madrane is not assured, no semantic assignment can be posited.

[D.S.]

Based on the stem vowel -a- of madrane, the derivational base must be a non-attested noun *madra-. Thus, madra- can be interpreted as a factitive verb in -a-^(ti).

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No etymology possible.

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