taqtula-

The only assured attestation of this lexeme is attested in the text of an official agreement, which was found it the precinct of Artemis in Sardis and datable to the the 5^th or 4^th century BCE.

[I.Y.]

The verb under discussion functions in its only attestation as a ditransitive predicate of a clause that refers to manipulations with material possessions. Its indirect object cẽqraλ qiraλ clearly designates some sort of property, while its direct object =ad presumably refers back to =ad in LW 22.8, which in turn functions as an anaphor for a subset of property to be transferred. The clause subject šiwraλmiš artimul function as arbitrators of the agreement concerning property, which is codified as LW 22. Thus we obtain the frame ‘(arbitrator) X (will) taqtula- (property) Y (to/in property) Z’. The translation ‘to add’ would be compatible with this frame and suit the general context of the inscription, but without additional attestations or etymological support this must remain as hypothesis.

[I.Y.]

If one follows the tentative suggestion of Melchert 1992a:40 and Gérard 2005a:100 to analyze the nasalization in taqtulãt as the unique trace of 3pl. pres. ending *-(V)nti in Lydian, then we are left with the stem taqtula-. From the structural viewpoint, it looks nothing like a Lydian verbal root or its derivative, and so one should probably follow Hajnal 2004a:196 n. 22 in reconstructing denominative derivation in this case. Hajnal (ibid.) also suspects that the nominal base *taqtula- is itself a compound because of the combination -qt-. No further analysis of this stem appears possible at the present state of our knowledge.

[I.Y.]