kärkṣināñ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “manacle, chain”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kerketstse
Lexeme variants:	kärkṣināñ
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom		kärkṣināñ
voc
acc	kärkṣiṃ
gen
loc
comit
inst		kärkṣināsyo
abl		kärkṣināsäṣ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kärk-
  • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv
    • kärkṣiṃ “manacle, chain” n

      	sg	pl
      nom		kärkṣināñ
      acc	kärkṣiṃ
      inst		kärkṣināsyo
      abl		kärkṣināsäṣ

    • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.subj7

      	sg.act
      1	kärkñam
      3	kärkñiṣ, kärkñäṣ

    • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.pret3

      	pl.act
      3	śarkr-äm

      • kakärku “to bind, tie” part.pret3

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	kakärku, kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkuṣ, kakärkunt	kakärkunt
        acc	kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkunt

    • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.imp

      	pl.act
      2	pkärkäs

Occurrences

kärkṣināñ

1	A 269 and 290 a4	ṣera(śi-niṣkramāntaṃ) (॥) /// a4	kärkṣināñ	: yas penu tsa(lpoṣ)
2	A 269 and 290 b1	(ñä)kcyāñ napeṃṣāñ ; puk	kärkṣināñ	; kärṣto(nt) ñ(i) •

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.