kāwälte

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “handsome, beautiful”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	kāwälte
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	kāwälte		kāwälteñi	kāwältenāñ
voc
acc	kāwältenäṃ		kāwältenäs
gen	kāwältenāp
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kāwälte “handsome, beautiful”

  	sg.m	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	kāwälte	kāwälteñi	kāwältenāñ
  acc	kāwältenäṃ	kāwältenäs
  gen	kāwältenāp

  • kāwältune “attractiveness” n

    	sg
    nom	kāwältune
    acc	kāwältune
    gen	kāwältuneyis

Occurrences

kāwälte

1	A 16 a1	: skenmāṃ penu ;	kāwälte	; knānmāṃ tsraṣi ;
2	A 148 b3	pukis mäskatär ānewā – – – – – –	kāw(ä)lte	kulypam śäk wra(mä)ṣ{†ä} skam
3	A 148 b4	k śkaṃ śäk wramäṃ	kāwälte	naslu(ne)yac b5 /// pācraṃ
4	A 222 a6	; nānde ñom (:)	(kāwälte)	– ; (praca)r ;
5	A 314 a8	1σ s·rpärts ciñcär ;	kā(w)älte	; ṣñike= kaksu :
6	IOL Toch 286 a2	·o /// a2 ///	kāwälte	ko° /// a3 ///

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.