cito-

This word is found in the temenos-inscription, which has recently been dated accurately to 542-541 BCE, i.e. 5 years after the fall of the Lydian empire (Euler & Sasseville 2019a:134).

[D.S.]

The segment citoλs has been analyzed as citoλ=s by Euler & Sasseville 2019a:131f. n. 24 (likewise Schürr 2004b:196), i.e. a dative singular followed by the emphatic particle =s disjoined with qλ ‘to whom’ by puk ‘or’ (contra Schürr 2004b ibid., who rather emends afarλ^!s to keep the disjunction between the same two words). This supersedes the older view that citoλs was a nominative singular or nominativus pendens (thus Carruba 1960a:38, Gusmani 1964a:91, Yakubovich 2017b:278, Probert 2018a:376) and makes better sense of the sequence -λs; cf. ṃλiλ=s (LW 15.1) ‘for Malis’, likewise found at the beginning of a clause.

[D.S.]

Since citoλs should denote something in relation to the inscription that is to be protected, Gusmani 1961a:177f. suggests the meaning ‘title deed (?)’ (Germ. ‘Eigentumsurkunde (?)’, followed by Dusinberre 2003a:230 ‘document of gift’, Bouzid-Adler 2014a:14 ‘l’acte de donation’). Differently, Grumach 1934a:189 had attempted to take citoλs as referring to the priest Mitridaštas. By analyzing citoλs as citoλ=s, it becomes clear that cito- refers to a person, who is to receive the mobile wealth of Mitridaštas and who is to be protected (Euler & Sasseville 2019a:131f.). This can be further supported from a morphological perspective, in which the suffix -to- builds agent nouns (see Schürr 2004b:196, Sasseville 2021a:182).

[D.S.]

The noun cito- is here analyzed as an agent noun in -to- c. (Schürr 2004b:196, Sasseville 2021a:182), derived from a verbal base *ci-; cf. also Lyd. citala-.

[D.S.]

1. citolla-