101. Phrygian

The rare letters of the Phrygian alphabet revisited

“…This is especially clearly seen in the use of the aorist form e-da-es regularly used in the dedicatory context (cf. M-01a, M-01b, M-02, B-01 or W-08 and discussions in Gorbachov 2005 or Ligorio andLubotsky 2018, 1827). There is no evidence suggesting that the verbs daand dakbelong, on the synchronic level, to the same paradigm, and their treatment by Obrador-Cursach (2020a, 157-159) under one lemma is confusing and erroneous.…”

“…This suggestion was commonly adopted in the more recent literature (e.g. Ligorio andLubotsky 2018, 1817). Lejeune proceeded in his interpretation of the letter from G-145 (no.…”

“…'put') the name « Azatiwadaya »' (KARATEPE §39) or wa/i-ta (DEUS)Pa-ḫa-la-ti-i-sà á-ma-za-ḫa-́ á-lá/í-ma-za PONERE-ḫa (HAMA 4, §7) 'I put the name of the goddess Ba'alat and my (own) name (on it)'. These parallels and general logic requires for da𐤶et a meaning 'would/will put' and not 'would/will make' (thus contra Ligorio andLubotsky 2018, 1823). In other words, the expected root is not dak-, but da-.…”

“…For the recent views on the development of the Phrygian consonants see in generalLigorio and Lubotsky 2018, 1823-1824. One may note, however, that given the size of the Phrygian linguistic area and the likely existence of several dialects already in the early period, it is not excluded that the reflection of the IE consonants was not quite the same in different parts of Phrygia.…”

On the homonymy of ‘put’ and ‘suck’ in Proto-Indo-European

“…ending -es to a sigmatic aorist *dheh1-s-;2 furthermore in Old Phrygian 3sg. daket, New Phrygian (αδ)δακετ, which means either 'inflicts' (Ligorio/Lubotsky 2018: 1827-1828 or 'has inflicted' (Kortlandt 2018: 138), in the 3sg. future OPhr.…”