kakätwu

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “to ridicule, cause someone to be ashamed”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	kakätwu
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	3
Case:	nominative
Gender:	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	kakätwu
voc
acc
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• katw-
  • katw- “to ridicule, cause someone to be ashamed” gv
    • katw- “to ridicule, cause someone to be ashamed” gv.prs8

      	pl.act	sg.mid
      3	ktuseñc-äṃ	katuṣtär

    • katw- “to ridicule, cause someone to be ashamed” gv.pret3
      • kakätwu “to ridicule, cause someone to be ashamed” part.pret3

        	sg.m
        nom	kakätwu

Occurrences

kakätwu

1	A 7 b1	(träṅkä)b1(ṣ) (h)ai ṣokyo nu	kakätwu	tākā yaṃtrācāreṃ käṣṣinā ote
2	A 188 b3	taṃ /// b3 –	kakätwu	tāpäkyaṃ /// b4 (bh)ādrāṃ

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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