kaṣṭ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “hunger, famine”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kest
Lexeme variants:	kaṣṭ; kaṣt
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kaṣṭ
voc
acc	kaṣṭ
gen
loc
comit
inst	kaṣtyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kaṣt “hunger, famine” m

  	sg
  nom	kaṣṭ
  acc	kaṣṭ
  inst	kaṣtyo

  • kaśśi “hunger, famine”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	kaśśi	kaśśi	kaśśiñ

Occurrences

kaṣṭ

1

A 147 a4

āṣānik (s)w(a)seyis kärṣtāluneyā ypeyaṃ

kaṣṭ

pākär n(ä)ṃ – ñi

kaṣt

1	A 154 a3	mäṃt ne ālyäkyāṃ praṣtaṃ	kaṣt	ṣeṣ sukrānāñ · ynā
2	A 320 a5	/// ñare lwā pretāñ	kaṣt	yok(e)yo kakärnuṣ ṣeñc cesmā
3	A 344 b4	13σ /// nträ ;	kaṣt	yokeyo : napeñi ṣme

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.