tus-^(ti)

This lexeme is only securely attested twice in texts from Xanthos.

[O.B.]

3pl. pres. act.	tusñti	TL 44a.12 (Xanthos)
		TL 45b.11 (Xanthos)

Note that Schürr 2005a:151 restores [tusñt]i on TL 45b.5. While the restored letters would conceivably fit the lacuna, the fact that the restoration is based on only one letter renders it too uncertain to be included as a properly attested form.

[O.B.]

The meaning of tus-^(ti) is not easily determined independently within Lycian A, since the contexts of both attestations are fragmentary and without any legible object. However, an iterative verb built on tuwe-^(ti) ‘to place (vertically), establish’ is plausible from a morphological perspective (thus Shevoroshkin 1979a:92f, DLL:74, Neumann 2007a:392, Serangeli 2018a:319, Sasseville 2021a:456). This notion is further supported by the identical corresponding verb in Lycian B being preceded by tbisu ‘twice’. Note that the meaning cannot be distributive, as tuwe-^(ti) may take plural objects. The sense of tus-^(ti) must consequently be iterative (Sasseville 2021a:456).

While the base Lyc. A tuwe-^(ti) may have an abstract meaning, e.g. ‘to establish (of laws)’, this cannot be securely posited for tus-^(ti). Schürr 2005a:151 makes substantial restorations of TL 45b in which [tusñt]i is postulated with a direct object mara ebeija ‘these laws’. If this restoration is correct (on which see Forms), tus-^(ti) would have an additional sense ‘to uphold (vel sim.)’ (per Schürr ‘einhalten’), forming an imperfective sense to ‘to establish’. On account of the insecure restoration of [tusñt]i, this cannot be considered certain, however.

The meaning ‘twelve’ assigned to tusñti by Laroche 1974b:146 n. 41 is outdated, see Shevoroshkin 1979a:92f.

[O.B.]

Lyc. tus-^(ti) is an iterative s-stem formation built to the base tuwe-^(ti) ‘to place (vertically), establish’.

[O.B.]

This lexeme is a hapax attested on the Xanthos stele.

[O.B.]

3sg. pres. act.

tustti

TL 44d.21 (Xanthos)

See Meaning under the corresponding Lycian A lemma. The iterative reading is substantiated by the preceding adverb tbisu ‘twice’ (Sasseville 2021a:456). The direct object is not legible, however.

[O.B.]

For the derivational base, see Lyc. tuwe-^(ti).