ekri

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “empty, deprived, fallen into decay”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	aikare
Lexeme variants:	ekri
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	feminine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	ekrä	ekri	ekre
voc
acc
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ekär “empty, deprived, fallen into decay”

  	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
  nom	ekrä	ekri	ekre

  • ekrä-āsam “empty [and] dry”

    	sg.f
    nom	ekrä-āsmiṃ

  • ekratsune “empty, deprived, fallen into decay” n

    	sg
    nom	ekratsune
    acc	ekratsune
    inst	ekratsuneyo

    • ekratsuneṣi “empty, deprived, fallen into decay”

      	sg.m
      acc	ekratsuneṣiṃ

  • ekro “poor”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	ekro	ekroṃts	ekroṣ
    acc	ekro		ekroṣ

    • ekrorñe “poor” n

      	sg
      nom	ekrorñe
      acc	ekrorñe
      gen	ekrorñeyis
      perl	ekrorñeyā

    • ekrorñeṣi “of poverty”

      	sg.m
      acc	ekrorñeṣiṃ

Occurrences

ekri

1

A 159 a4

t – nmitā tse

ekri

oki päls(k)aṃ s· ///

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.