käntwes
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “tongue”; “language” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | kantwo |
| Lexeme variants: | käntwes; käntwis |
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| Number: | singular |
| Case: | genitive |
| Gender: | masculine; feminine |
| Inflection class: |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Nom. pl. (masc.): | -ā |
Paradigm
Lexeme family
- käntu “tongue”
“language”
m/f
- käntwāṣi “related to tongue or language”
Occurrences
käntwis
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.