iško-

The attestations of this stem are limited to the inscriptions found at the cemetery of Sardis. LW 2 represents a prose funerary inscription datable to the mid-4^th century BCE on the basis of its dating formula, whereas the other two texts are poetic and can be only dated within the broad range of 5^th - 4^th century BCE.

[I.Y.]

The available set of endings clearly indicates that we are dealing with an adjective or adjectival pronoun. The meaning ‘all’ was proposed for LW 2.5 in Brandenstein 1929a:284f. based on the contextual analysis of the relevant passage, which has stood the test of time. An additional context favoring the same translation is ešt … iškod in LW 11.10, where the interpretation ‘this … all’ makes a perfect sense. But the present rendering ‘every, all’ differs to an extent from ‘whole, all’, proposed in Gusmani 1964a:135. The crucial passage is LW 11.2, where iškos aνis ‘appears’ to refer to ‘every installation’ rather than ‘whole installation’, given that three distinct installations are mentioned in the immediately preceding clause. For the polysemy ‘every, all’, cf. typologically the case of HLuw. /tanima/i-/.

[I.Y.]

No etymology possible.

[I.Y.]