cidaλmda-

This lexeme is attested once in the text of an official agreement found in the precinct of Artemis in Sardis and datable to the 5^th or 4^th century BCE.

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The noun occurs in the phrase kot=it cidaλmdaν ẽnwalaλ ‘as for/from the ẽnwaλa- of the cidaλm-eans’, which appears to provide a background reference. Since the phrase under discussion is unlikely to contain both dat.-loc. sg. and dat.-loc. pl., the form cidaλmdaν most likely most likely stands in gen. pl. Going a step further, one can hypothesize that it designates a group of people of which ẽnwaλa- is the representative. Cf. further under ẽnwaλa- and the discussion of the stem formation below.

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The noun cidaλmda- represents an a-stem and is derived with the suffix -da-, on which see Gérard 2005a:89. The potentially closest semantic match to cidaλmda- provided with this suffix is sfarda- ‘Sardian’. It seems fairly likely that in the instance of cidaλmda- we are also dealing with a group defined with respect to its geographic origin. It is impossible, however, to go further as long as the base noun *cidaλm(i)- (vel sim.) remains unattested.

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No reconstruction possible.

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