knässi

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Meaning:	“to fulfill (a wish)”; “become”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	knässi
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	8
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• kän-
  • kän- “bring about, come about” “cause to come about” “to come about, occur” gv
    • kän- “bring about, come about” “cause to come about” “to come about, occur” gv.prs8

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	knäṣtär, knäṣtär-ñi	käṃṣānt, käṃsantär

    • kän- “bring about, come about” “cause to come about” “to come about, occur” gv.subj3

      	sg.mid
      3	knitär, knitär-ñi, knitär-ci, knatär, knatr-äm

      • knalune “accomplishment” abstr.n.subj3

        	sg
        nom	knalune
        acc	knalune
        inst	knaluneyo

    • kän- “bring about, come about” “cause to come about” “to come about, occur” gv.pret
      • kaknu “bring about, come about” “cause to come about” “to come about, occur” part.pret

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	kaknu, kaknunt	kaknunt	kaknuṣ, kaknunt	kaknunt
        acc	kaknunt	kaknusāṃ, kaknunt	kaknunt	kaknunt
        gen	kaknuntāp

  • kän- “to fulfill (a wish)” “become” kaus
    • kän- “to fulfill (a wish)” “become” kaus.prs8

      	pl.act	pl.mid
      3	käṃseñc	käṃsanträ

      • käṃṣant “fulfilling (a wish)” “becoming” ptcp.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f
        nom	käṃṣant	käṃṣant

      • knäsmāṃ “fulfill (a wish)” “becoming” part.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	knäsmāṃ	knäsmāṃ	knäsmāṃ	knäsmāṃ
        acc	knäsmāṃ	knäsmāṃ	knäsmāṃ	knäsmāṃ

      • knässi “to fulfill (a wish)” “become” inf.n.prs8

        	sg
        nom	knässi
        acc	knässi

      • käṃṣäl “to fulfill (a wish)” “become” part.prs8

        	sg.m
        nom	käṃṣäl

    • kän- “to fulfill (a wish)” “become” kaus.subj9

      	sg.act
      1	knāsam, knāsam-ci

    • kän- “to fulfill (a wish)” “become” kaus.pret2

      	sg.act
      3	kakäṃ

    • kän- “to fulfill (a wish)” “become” kaus.imp1/3

      	sg.act	pl.act
      2	pkanā-ñi	päknäs

Occurrences

knässi

1	A 258 b2	kaksunt wsokaṃ indrisyo pāpṣune	k(n)ä{ṣ→s}(si)	b3 /// (säs) (postäk)
2	A 317 a6	cam mā ok cäm{ṣ→p}ṣā	knässi	ṣñi : ॥ tmäṣ
3	YQ I.6 b1	pukis puk ākāl ;	knässi	pke : śäk we