cmalune

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “birth”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	cmelñe
Lexeme variants:	cmalune; cmolune
Number:	singular
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	3
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	cmalune
voc
acc	cmalune
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• täm-
  • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus
    • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus.prs10

      	sg.act
      1	tmäṃsam
      3	tämnäṣ, tämnäṣ-ñi, tämnäṣṣ-äṃ

      • tämnässi “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” inf.n.prs10

        	sg
        nom	tämnässi
        acc	tämnässi

      • tmäṃṣant “begeting, generating” ptcp.prs10

        	sg.m	sg.f
        nom	tmäṃṣant	tmäṃṣant

    • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus.subj9

      	sg.mid
      3	tmāṣitär

    • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus.pret4

      	pl.mid
      3	tatäṃṣānt, tatämṣānt-äṃ

      • tatämṣu “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” part.pret4

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	tatämṣu, tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt
        acc	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt

  • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv
    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.prs10

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	tämnäṣtär, tämnäṣtr-äṃ	tmäṃsaṃtär, tmäṃsaṃtr-äṃ

      • tmäṃṣäl “to be born” “to be born, come into being” part.prs10

        	sg.m
        nom	tmäṃṣäl

      • tmäṃsamāṃ “being born, coming into being” part.prs10

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ
        acc	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ

      • tämnässi “to be born” “to be born, come into being” inf.n.prs10

        	sg
        nom	tämnässi
        acc	tämnässi

    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.subj3

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1	cmimār	cmimtär
      3	cmatär

      • cmalune “birth” abstr.n.subj3

        	sg
        nom	cmalune
        acc	cmalune

        • cmaluneṣi “belonging to the birth” subj3

          	sg.m
          acc	cmaluneṣi, cmaluneṣiṃ

    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.pret

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	tamät	tamänt, tamt-äṃ

    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.pret0
      • tatmu “having been born, come into being” part.pret0

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
        nom	tatmu		tatmuṣ
        acc		tatmus, tatmusām	tatmuñcäs
        gen	tatmuntāp

Occurrences

cmolune

1

A 82 a4

onmiṃ /// a4 cmolaṃ

cmolune

: tṣäṣṣ ā ///

cmalune

1	A 196 a4	a4 – · ñ(a)reyaṃ	cmalune	/// a5 räṣ träṅkäṣ
2	A 379 b2	; – – lpāt ;	cmalune	/// 20σ 16σ b3
3	YQ I.9 a1	säs ñy ākessu ;	cmaa2(lune)	; 11σ /// 14σ

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.