kāpar

Cite this page as:	"kāpar". 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_kāpar (accessed 17 Jun. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “to come to a boil, surge up”; “to be excited, be greedy”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kāwā-
Lexeme variants:	kāpar
Person:	third
Number:	plural
Tense/Mood:	preterite
Root character:	a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-full
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Valency:	intransitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3		kāpar

Lexeme family

• kāpā-
  • kāpā- “to come to a boil, surge up” “to be excited, be greedy” gv
    • kāpā- “to come to a boil, surge up” “to be excited, be greedy” gv.subj5

      	sg.act
      3	kāpiṣ, kāpaṣ, kāpaṣ-äṃ

      • kāplune “boiling” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	kāplune
        acc	kāplune
        gen	kāpluneyis

    • kāpā- “to come to a boil, surge up” “to be excited, be greedy” gv.pret1

      	pl.act
      3	kāpar

Occurrences

kāpar

1

A 340 a3

; śwātsiṣy ākālyo ;

kāpar

ymār pälskānt ; kāruṇik

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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