niqe(si)=k

This lexeme is found once in a text of a legal agreement, found in the precinct of Artemis in Sardis and probably written in late 6^th century or 5^th century BCE.

[I.Y.]

There is an obvious connection between niqesi-k in LW 22.8 and qesiš in the same line. The negative function of ni- in this lexeme is already recognized in Gusmani 1964a:175, the earlier suggestion of Brandenstein 1931b:31 and Meriggi 1935a:96, 112 to treat it as an intensifying morpheme is etymologically unfounded and has no contextual value. While no wastνun-obligation is applicable to the mλimn-group, the kind (or amount) of datros(i)-obligation remains to be determined (Yakubovich 2017b:277). If qesiš is translated as ‘of which kind’, then niqesi=k must be translated ‘of no kind’; cf. further under qe(si)-.

[I.Y.]

Cf. under qe(si)-. The lexeme qe(si)=k represents a combination of the indefinite pronoun qe(si)=k and the negative prefix ni-. It is remarkable that the same combination does not undergo fusion on the instance of qi=k ‘any’: cf. LW 24.22 nid qiš=k and LW 23.15–16 nid qλ=k.

[I.Y.]