kārnal

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “descend”; “make descend, lower”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	kārnal
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	6
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-äṃ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	P-e

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• kārpā-
  • kārpā- “to descend” gv
    • kārpā- “descend” “make descend, lower” gv.prs6

      	sg.act	pl.act
      3	kārnaṣ	kārneñc

      • kārnal “descend” “make descend, lower” part.prs6

        	sg.m
        nom	kārnal

      • kārnmāṃ “descending” part.prs6

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	kārnmāṃ	kārnmāṃ	kārnmāṃ	kārnmāṃ
        acc	kārnmāṃ	kārnmāṃ	kārnmāṃ	kārnmāṃ

      • kārnatsi “descend” “make descend, lower” inf.n.prs6

        	sg
        nom	kārnatsi
        acc	kārnatsi

    • kārpā- “to descend” gv.prs7

      	sg.act
      3	kārpṣā-ṃ

    • kārpā- “to descend” gv.pret1

      	sg.act
      2	kārpaṣt
      3	kārp

      • kākärpu “to descend” part.pret1

        	sg.m
        nom	kākärpu

    • kārpā- “to descend” gv.subj5
      • kārplune “descending” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	kārplune
        acc	kārplune

  • kārp- “to make descend” kaus
    • kārp- “to make descend” kaus.pret4
      • kākärpṣu “to make descend” part.pret4

        	sg.m
        nom	kākärpṣu
        abl	kākärpṣuräṣ

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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