taso-^(d)

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 6^th, 5^th or 4^th century BCE. It can be tentatively reconstructed in another inscription, also found in Sardis and datable to the 4^th century BCE.

[I.Y.]

3sg. pres. act.	tasod	LW 22.15 (Sardis)
	t]asod	LW 80.17 (Sardis)

The appurtenance of the second form is questionable, but note that, like the first one, it also occurs toward the end of the inscription in a context featuring relative clauses.

[I.Y.]

The well-understood context LW 22.14-15 suggests that the goddess Artemis reserves the right to taso- a certain binding regulation to the mλimna-group. Accordingly, the translation ‘to prescribe’ was proposed in Meriggi 1935a:84 and a very similar translation ‘to impose’ was accepted in Gusmani 1964a:211, Yakubovich 2017b:282, Högemann & Oettinger 2018a:81 and Sasseville 2021a:187f. “to empower”. There seem to have been no attempts to challenge this interpretation.

[I.Y.]

Synchronically, this is a verb in -o-, perhaps going back to a Proto-Anatolian derivational suffix *-éu̯- (see Sasseville 2021a:180-182). The Lydian form is accented on the suffix and contains the lenited ending of 3sg. pres. act.

[I.Y.]

For the lemma head see Lyd. taso-.