crakäs

Cite this page as:	"crakäs". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_crakäs (accessed 07 Dec. 2025).
Meaning:	“~ to lose (one's consciousness)” Carling and Pinault 2023: “twine, roll, twist”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	tärk-
Lexeme variants:	crakäs
Person:	third
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	preterite
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	crakäs	crakär

Lexeme family

• tärk-
  • tärk- “twine, roll, twist” “~ to lose (one's consciousness)” gv
    • tark “earring” m

      	sg	pl
      nom	tark	tarkañ
      acc	tark	tarkas

    • tärk- “twine, roll, twist” “~ to lose (one's consciousness)” gv.pret3

      	sg.act	pl.act
      3	crakäs	crakär

      • tatärku “twine, roll, twist” “~ to lose (one's consciousness)” part.pret3

        	sg.m	pl.m
        nom	tatärku	tatärkuṣ

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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