kipṣ-äk

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “shame”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kwīpe
Lexeme variants:	kipṣ-äk
Number:	singular
Case:	ablative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kip
voc
acc	kip
gen
loc
comit
inst	kipyo
abl	kipṣ-äk
perl
all	kīpac
caus

Lexeme family

• kip “shame” m

  	sg
  nom	kip
  acc	kip
  inst	kipyo
  abl	kipṣ-äk
  all	kīpac

  • kipṣi “pertaining to shame”

    	sg.m
    nom	kipṣi

  • kipsu “shameful”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	kipsu	kipsuṣ

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.