erkāt

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “unkind, scornful”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	erkatte
Lexeme variants:	erkāt
Case:	nominative

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• erkāt “unkind, scornful”
  • erkātune “unpleasantness, scorn, resentment” n

    	sg
    nom	erkātune
    acc	erkātune

Occurrences

erkāt

1	A 171 a3	/// a3 ytāraṃ ymāṃ	erkāt{†ä}	tāki – /// a4
2	A 245 a2	– – – ·k· a2 ///	erkāt	ka – salu l·
3	A 332 a4	/// a4 – cam	erkāt	yatär näṣ sä – – – –
4	A 332 a5	2σ wärpo ; yärk	erkāt	; – – – – – 4σ ;
5	THT 1426.d a3	tmaṃ /// a3 ///	erkāt	ka /// a4 ///

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.