kātkāñ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “master of the house, householder”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kattāke
Equivalent in other languages:	Khot. ggāṭhaa, Skt. gṛhastha-
Lexeme variants:	kātkāñ
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom		kātkāñ
voc
acc
gen		kātkāśśi
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kātak “master of the house, householder” m

  	pl
  nom	kātkāñ
  gen	kātkāśśi

  • kātkune “master of the house, householder” n

    	sg
    nom	kātkune, kātkune-k
    acc	kātkune, kātkune-k

    • kātkuneṣi “master of the house, householder”

      	sg.m
      acc	kātkuneṣiṃ

  • kātkeṃ “master of the house, householder”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.f
    nom	kātkeṃ	kātkeṃ
    acc			kātkenās

Occurrences

kātkāñ

1	A 226 a5	wärpnāntär 80-3 ceṃ ṣeñc	kātkāñ	; neṣ cmolwaṃ ;
2	A 226 b2	(kuce) pat nu ;	kātkāñ	tāke ; kākropuṣ ;
3	A 300 b7	käm naṣ • mā	kātkāñ	täpreṃ umpar ype – – – – – – –

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.