Lydian
Facts
- Language: Lydian
- Alternate names:
- Language code: xld
- Language family: Indo-European, Anatolian, Unclassified Anatolian
- Number of speakers: Extinct
- Script:
More information:
Introduction
Lydian is an extinct language spoken by the Lydians.
The verb
The Lydian verb categories were similar to those of Hittite.
- Only two tenses are found: the past (preterite) and the present.
- Lydian had 3 persons, as usual in Indo-European tongues.
- Verbs had 2 moods in Lydian - indicative ("I go") and imperative ("go!").
Verblist
- ama- -- to love
- ani-/ avi- -- to make
- artimuλ -- to artemis
- arwol -- to appropriate
- aλev -- to the others
- ãrte -- to define
- basosaknaki -- to do harm
- cuve- -- to erect
- daul- -- to press
- dawic- -- to erect
- duve -- to construct
- dã- -- to give
- ẽn-sarb- -- to write in
- ẽtos -- to surround
- ẽtqra -- to complete
- facuni- -- to errect
- fakarse -- to cut out, to destroy
- fakatwãmi -- to go forward
- fakorfid -- to undertake
- fẽnani -- to complete, finalize
- fẽnstifi -- to spoil
- fẽtamn -- to define
- kantro- -- to trust someone with, to dedicate
- mẽtli -- to harm
- oλ -- to him
- qên- -- to kill
- sawtari -- to guard
- silavad -- to take care
- tarb -- to possess
- tro -- to speak
- vacvil -- to acvi
- wic- -- to build