śarkr-äm

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “to bind, tie”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kärk-
Lexeme variants:	śarkr-äm

Person:	third
Number:	plural
Tense/Mood:	preterite
Pronoun suffix:	plural
Root character:	non-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	3
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3		śarkr-äm

Lexeme family

kärk-
- kärk- “to bind, tie” gv
  - kärkṣiṃ “manacle, chain” n
    
    sg pl
    
    nom kärkṣināñ
    
    acc kärkṣiṃ
    
    inst kärkṣināsyo
    
    abl kärkṣināsäṣ
  - kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.subj7
    
    sg.act
    
    1 kärkñam
    
    3 kärkñiṣ, kärkñäṣ
  - kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.pret3
    
    pl.act
    
    3 śarkr-äm
    - kakärku “to bind, tie” part.pret3
      
      sg.m sg.f pl.m pl.f
      
      nom kakärku, kakärkunt kakärkunt kakärkuṣ, kakärkunt kakärkunt
      
      acc kakärkunt kakärkunt kakärkunt kakärkunt
  - kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.imp
    
    pl.act
    
    2 pkärkäs

Occurrences

śarkr-äm

1

maṇḍlac kātse wāworäṣ asläntwac

• tm-äk – – – b4

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.