ẽkepi
‘when, after, as soon as’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- adv
- ID
- 3099
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
ẽkepi
‘when, after, as soon as’1.1.1Transmission
This word is found in a funerary inscription.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | ẽkepi | TL 112.3 (Limyra) |
| ẽ{:}kepi | TL 111.5 (Limyra) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The wrongly carved punctuation in ẽ{:}kepi was noticed very early (see Thomsen 1899a:23 n. 1, Pedersen 1945a:12).
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
On contextual grounds, Thomsen 1899a:21, 23 assigns to the conjunction ẽkepi the meaning ‘when, after’ (followed by Meriggi 1930a:419, Carruba 1968a:20, Gehrisch 2018a:15, Christiansen 2020a:242f.; also Serangeli 2018a:322 and Sasseville 2021a:422 both translating it with “as soon as”). Melchert (DLL:20) translates the conjunction with ‘before, until’ instead, which introduces a temporal difference less supported by the context, since the action of the clause has taken place as soon as the person dies or after.
[D.S.]
1.1.5Stem
The word ẽkepi is surely composed of ẽke ‘when, as, like’ and epi ‘(preverb)’, although one cannot exclude a particle =pi as in hrppi ‘for, on’ (see Pal. =pi); Neumann 2007a:82 leaves it open. Houwink ten Cate 1961a:79 assumes that they are one and the same, i.e. (e)pi, which is not supported by the respective etymologies.
[D.S.]