kakärkunt

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “to bind, tie”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	kakärkunt
Number:	plural; singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	3
Case:	nominative; accusative; accusative
Gender:	feminine; masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-nt
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ṣ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	kakärku, kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkuṣ, kakärkunt	kakärkunt
voc
acc	kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkunt
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kärk-
  • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv
    • kärkṣiṃ “manacle, chain” n

      	sg	pl
      nom		kärkṣināñ
      acc	kärkṣiṃ
      inst		kärkṣināsyo
      abl		kärkṣināsäṣ

    • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.subj7

      	sg.act
      1	kärkñam
      3	kärkñiṣ, kärkñäṣ

    • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.pret3

      	pl.act
      3	śarkr-äm

      • kakärku “to bind, tie” part.pret3

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	kakärku, kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkuṣ, kakärkunt	kakärkunt
        acc	kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkunt	kakärkunt

    • kärk- “to bind, tie” gv.imp

      	pl.act
      2	pkärkäs

Occurrences

kakärkunt

1	A 56 b2	lāts sne tuṅk nāṃtsus	kakärkunt	se pontsāṃ kapśiñño b3
2	A 97 b3	talkeyaṃ vaidikeñ prāmnāñ pyākṣac	kakärkunt	• b4 /// cem
3	THT 1463 a4	/// a4 /// –	kakärkunt	aryu ṣt· mi ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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