lawa-(d)
‘to show reverence, respect (?)’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- verb
- ID
- 921
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
lawa-(d)
‘to show reverence, respect (?)’1.1.1Transmission
The only assured attestation of this lexeme comes from a burial inscription found at the cemetery of Sardis and broadly datable to the 5th or 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| 3sg. pres. act. | šilawad | LW 3.3 (Sardis) |
Pace Gusmani 1980a:89, there are no compelling grounds to assume that fa-ši-tawa- (LW 80.16) represents a form of lawa-. For the status of lawl, cf. the respective lemma.
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1.1.3Meaning
The context of LW 3 suggests that the transitive stem ši-lawa- must represent an antonym of ẽn-šλipi- ‘to damage’. The meaning ‘to maintain’ was suggested for this context already in Littmann 1916a:55. It seems likely on semantic grounds that the verbal stem lawa- represents a derivative of lo- ‘to respect’, if its meaning was correctly determined. If in the future the meaning of lo- proves to be not ‘to respect’ but, for example ‘to bury’, this will speak against the connection between the two verbs. However, Yakubovich 2019b brings further arguments in favor of the meaning ‘to show reverence’.
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1.1.4Stem
The stem lawa- triggers the lenition of the verbal ending in 3sg. pres. (Melchert 1997b:133, followed in Gérard 2005a:108). The stem lawa- is combined with the prefix ši-.
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For the lemma head see Lyd. lo-(d).