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Phrygian: perbastidages

Part of speech: m.

Meaning: PN (?)

Attested forms: C§am£nµ whorl perbastidages :

Etymological comments:

   See Din‡ - Innocente 1999, 65-72. According to Innocente, it should be read in one word, presumably a name. She also considers a possible reading ²dales. Cf. s.v. perbeda-.


Phrygian: perbeda- (?)

Part of speech: f.

Meaning: `surrounding of the tomb' (?)

Attested forms: acc.sg. perbedan 114

Contexts: 114 ... ioj ke breit perbedan tih tit tetikmenoj eitou

Etymological comments: Brixhe - Drew-Bear 1997: 79 analyse the word as a compound per + beda- (derived from PIE *bhedh- `to dig', Lat. fodio) = +_ `entourage de la tombe' (Gr. per…boloj). Cf. also perbastidages on a C§am£nµ whorl ( Din‡ - Innocente 1999).


Phrygian: perk-

Part of speech: verb

Meaning: `to inscribe', always with the preverb en-

Attested forms: 3sg. s-aor. OPhr. eneparkes ² G-125, ²eneparkes¢ M-01d, [e]n·[e]parkes ² G-01C; NPhr. eneparkej 31

Contexts:

   G-125 ]rono-oy : eneparkes ²-ei¢es
M-01d midas / smateran / tvemes ²eneparkes¢ ...
G-01C e]n·[e]/p/arkes ²v[
31. ... mankan ian estaej bratere / maimarhan poukroj manisou eneparkej detoun / [

Etymological comments: Since Lejeune 1969b, connected with the PIE root *perk´- `to scratch, to dig' (Pok. 821, Lat. porca `furrow', etc.). The root has most probably the lengthened grade (to be expected in s-aorist) *pŒrk´ > Phr. park-.


Phrygian: pinke

Part of speech: numeral

Meaning: `five'

Attested forms: pinke 116

Contexts: 116. ... pinke taj d·[a]/k·erhj onomaniaij m·i·rou ik· / k·naikan edaej

Etymological comments: It seems possible that the sentence refers to the five parts of the grave, mentioned before, viz. iosoj ke deton· [(o)u]yod·an ke ta·n saunaman [ke] k·no·uman k akrodman ke (note five times ke). We can render the sentence as follows: `he has made (edaej) five (pinke) those (taj) parts (d·[a]k·erhj) mentioned (onomaniaij) of the monument (m·i·rou) for (the sake of) (ik·) the wife (k·naikan)'. [See Lubotsky, Kadmos, forthcoming.]


Phrygian: pokgonion

Part of speech: prep. + acc. `?

Attested forms: prep. + acc. pokgonion 116 (?)

Contexts: 116 o·m·o·usaj aipoj ekanej aka--¢/ d·eo pokgonion teutwsi ie--¢/ n·¢o·utaij edaej

Etymological comments: In view of the sandhi -s k- > -k k-, occasionally found in the NPhr. inscriptions (cf. 31. adiqrerak / xeuneoi; possibly ik· / k·naikan in this very inscription 116), it seems attractive to analyse the sequence pokgonion as poj gonion `towards g.'. For the preverb poj see s.v. pos. As to gonion, it is conceivably related to Gr. cqÒnioj `pertaining to the earth'. The context is not clear, but it represents a part of an epitaph, where it seems to be related what various people have contributed to the grave.


Phrygian: polodrates

Part of speech: m.

Meaning: PN

Attested forms: polodra·tes T-03

Contexts: T-03a. a|iiai : polodra·/tes : poreti· : otu

Spelling variants: Brixhe (1991: 38) reads polodre·tes.

Etymological comments: Usually assumed to be a compound, containing a Phrygian equivalent of Gr. polu- or, rather, pollo- ( Brixhe 1991: 42). As uindicated by Brixhe (ibid.), the name, which seems to be in the nom.sg., cannot contain the suffix *-tŒs, since this would have developed into Phr. -tas. Maybe, we have to assume the influence of names like Voines, Ates, etc.


Phrygian: por/pur

Part of speech: preposition (+ acc./dat.)

Meaning: `for'

Contexts:

   W-05b [e]daes ²por ²mater[an] or mater[ey];
88. ... pour ke ouanaktan ouranion diounsin;
Dok. (126) por koro (dat.)

Etymological comments:

   < *pr• (cf. Gr. p£r, Goth. faur, etc.), Lejeune 1972: 340, fn. 57, Lubotsky 1989b: 151f. Cf. further Brixhe 1993: 333, 1997: 55.
Also porniyoy· (Dask2) may contain this preposition.


Phrygian: proitavo-

Part of speech: m.

Meaning: a title

Attested forms: nom.sg. proitavos M-01b; proitavo[s] M-02

Etymological comments: Presumably, something like `going in front, foreman' = pro + a derivative of the root i- `to go' (thus already Kretschmer). The suffix -avo- is attested in other titles as well, cf. akenanogavos.


Phrygian: protus

Part of speech: adv.

Meaning: `?'

Attested forms: protuj 15, (]protosou[ 31 ?)

Etymological comments:

   For protuj two explanations have been proposed. One takes protuj as the predicate of the sentence with the meaning `made, erected', cf. Meister 1909: 319, fn. 4 (3sg. sigm. aorist `er gab hin, er weihte'), Haas 1966: 106 (`erbaute'). The obvious flaw of this analysis is the absense of the augment and the ending -ej, which are characteristic for the Phrygian aorist forms.
According to the others, protuj is an adverb or a preverb. Ramsay 1905: 115 assumed an adverb `in front', probably having Gr. prÒ in mind; Diakonoff - Neroznak 1985: 131 saw in protuj a preverb `against', derived from *proti, whereas Bajun - Orel 1988: 140 considered it identical to Gr. Hom. prot…, Skt. pra´ti. Connection with prot… is improbable because in the Greek inscriptions of Phrygia we find pos-/poj instead of proj-/prÒj, which is to be explained by the fact that in Phrygian this adverb had the form poj (cf. Brixhe - Neumann 1985: 176, who point at pos-ekanej in the inscription No. 116, but see s.v. aipos-). Moreover, the proposed meaning of this adverb does not suit the context: a monument does not stand in front or against something.
Therefore it seems more plausible to take protuj as an adverb of time, meaning something like `before, in advance', Gr. prw~ton. It was not unusual to prepare a grave and erect a monument before the death of the person to whom the grave was dedicated (XXX). As far as the formation of the adverb is concerned, we may compare Gr. prw~twj and other adverbs in -wj (cf. Lubotsky 1993a: 130, fn. 3).
The same word may be attested in ]protosou[ 31, but the context of the broken part is unclear.


Phrygian: Pukros

Part of speech: m.

Meaning: PN

Attested forms: nom.sg. poukroj 31

Contexts: 31. ... poukroj manisou eneparkej detoun / [---

Etymological comments: Usually, the group poukroj manisou is analysed as a PN + a patronymicon ( Kowal 1984, Neumann 1986a), although the name is further unknown.


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