nipe
‘not (prohib.)’
- Language
- Lycian A
- Grammar
- neg
- ID
- 3151
1. Individual Anatolian Languages
1.1 Lycian A
nipe
‘not (prohib.)’1.1.1Transmission
This lexeme is found in a few grave inscriptions from Lycia.
[D.S.]
1.1.2Forms
| indecl. | nipe | TL 88.3 (Myra) |
| TL 88.4 (Myra) | ||
| TL 93.2(x2) (Myra) | ||
| nip!e | TL 5.7-8 (Telmessos) |
1.1.3Graphic Features
The attestation in TL 5.7-8 has nije instead (Kalinka 1901a:16, Friedrich 1932a:55), but is emended to nip!e.
[D.S.]
1.1.4Meaning
Imbert 1895a:225f. n. 4 points out that the negation nipe is repeated twice in inscription TL 88, which reinforces the claim that it is a negation just like ni. He translates thus ‘neither… nor…’. The addition of the particle =pe seems to simply reinforce the prohibitive negation ni (Houwink ten Cate 1961a:82, DLL:44).
[D.S.]
For the first part of the univerbation see Lyc. A ni.