ãn

This lexeme occurs in texts found at various locations in Sardis, as well as in one text discovered in the middle of the Kaystros valley.  Most texts are datable to 5^th or 4^th century BCE, except for TL 62 and TL 80, which were more precisely dated to the 4^th century BC.

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The segmentations ãn=s (LW 14.11, LW 15.3) and ãn=ad (LW 22.4) represent an element of interpretation and may prove to be incorrect. One should also compare ãnaš (ãš).

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The majority of the contexts in which the indeclinable element ãn occurs are fragmentary or obscure. Accordingly, no meaning is assigned to it in either Gusmani 1964a:71f. or Gusmani 1980a:38. There are, however, certain contextual cues that are conducive to elucidating its meaning. On the one hand, it is noteworthy that ãn occurs alongside kud ‘where, when, as’, probably correlating with it, in LW 10.16-18 and LW 12.6-7. In the first case, one arrives at the approximate translation ‘Let one revere my own remains in the same place/way as also (those of) my(?) parents’ (cf. išlodaλ). On the other hand, ãn appears twice in LW 22.4 in a sentence that also features syntactically parallel constituents. In this case, the hypothesis of the additive focus, first offered in Grumach 1933a:196 and repeated in Meriggi 1935a:96,115, must be taken seriously. This exhausts the list of fully preserved clauses featuring the relevant form. If one starts with the meanings ‘thus’ and ‘also’, they appear to be compatible with one another, cf. English also vs. its German homograph meaning ‘thus’. To this one can add that the segmentation of ãn- in ãnτẽt likewise appears to favor the meaning ‘thus’. One should not exclude the possibility of a meaning ‘here’ (cf. Car. an).

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1. ãnτẽt