nã=kukod
‘wherever, whenever’
- Language
- Lydian
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 2322
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lydian
nã=kukod
‘wherever, whenever’1.1.1Transmission
This adverb is attested once in the text of an official agreement found in the precinct of Artemis of Sardis and broadly datable to the 5th or 4th century BCE.
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1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | nã=kukod | LW 22.14 |
1.1.3Meaning
This adverb, left without translation in Gusmani 1964a, occurs in the concluding sentence of the agreement, which stipulates the role of Artemis in its future enforcement and regulation. It heads the dependent clause, just as the relative pronoun qed heads the subsequent dependent clause. Therefore, its translation ‘everywhere’, offered in Carruba 1969a:73, should be probably replaced with ‘wherever, whenever’, as also suggested by the presence of the element nã-.
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1.1.4Stem
With Gusmani 1964a:155, nã=kukod cannot be separated from kuko=k, which is conducive to identifying the element kukod common to both adverbs. Its basic sense ‘where, when’, reconstructed on the basis of the present case, appears similar to that of the adverb kud (q.v.). The element ku- can be compared with Luw. /kwi/ ‘when’ (cf. further under nikumẽk), while kod may or may not reflect the same etymological morpheme as kud. For the paradigmatic alternation o/u, presumably caused by the accent shift, cf. Lyd. wrato/u-, but the difficulty of treating kud as unstressed form lies in the similarity of syntactic distribution between kud and kot, whereas kot is assuredly a stressed adverb.
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For the lemma head see Lyd. nãν.

