knāṣ-äṃ

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Meaning:	“to strew” Carling and Pinault 2023: “spread, disperse”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kätā-
Lexeme variants:	knāṣ-äṃ

Person:	third
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	present
Pronoun suffix:	third
Root character:	a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	present
Stem class:	6
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3	knāṣ-äṃ, knāṣ-äm				knāntär

Lexeme family

kätā-
- kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv
  - kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv.prs6
    
    sg.act pl.mid
    
    3 knāṣ-äṃ, knāṣ-äm knāntär
  - kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv.pret1
    
    pl.act
    
    3 katar
    - kto “spread, disperse” “to strew” part.pret1
      
      sg.m
      
      nom kto
  - kätā- “spread, disperse” “to strew” gv.prs4
    - knāl “to be strewed” part.prs4
      
      sg.m
      
      nom knāl

Occurrences

knāṣ-äṃ

1

a5 /// k{†ä}

täm(n)e /// a6

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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