inãni-^(t)

This lexeme is found in three inscriptions coming from the cemetery and the precinct of Artemis in Sardis and datable to 5^th-4^th century BCE.

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1sg. pres. act.	[in]ãnu	LW 2.11 (Sardis)
3sg. pres. act.	inãnt	LW 22.15 (Sardis)
1sg. pret. act.	inãnidν	LW 10.19 (Sardis)

The restoration [in]ãnu offered in Sasseville 2018c:129 is not absolutely assured but very likely on contextual grounds; cf. further under Lyd. šiwraλm(i)-.

[I.Y.]

The translation ‘he/one must do’ was proposed for inãnt in Meriggi 1935a:84 on the basis of the derivational relationship between in-^(t) and inãni-^(t), which had been offered as a hypothesis in Brandenstein 1931a:8f. The demonstration that the form inãnidν formally belongs to the same stem was accomplished in Melchert 1992a:42f., although its correct translation can be found already in Vetter 1959a:56 n. 22. The translation ‘I made’ is probably preferable to ‘I did’ in this last example, although much depends here on the interpretation of sfarwa-. If the restoration [in]ãnu is correct, it also vindicates the meaning ‘to make’ (Sasseville 2018c:129).

[I.Y.]

As convincingly argued in Melchert 1992a:42f., the stem inãni- represents a secondary derivative of the derived stem in-^(t). It triggers to use of the ending -t in 3sg. pres. and therefore can be represented as inãni-^(t). The derivational suffix of inãni-^(t) is likely to represent an allomorph of -e͂ni-^(t) and be ultimately cognate with the Hittite imperfective suffix -anna-/-i(ya)-^(ḫi). In fact, the imperfective semantics may still be perceived in LW 22.15, which apparently refers to an action one must perform each time when asked.

[I.Y.]

For the base see Lyd. in-^(t).