knānmāñcsaṃ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “a wise person”; “knowing”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	knānmāñcsaṃ
Number:	plural
Stem:	present
Stem class:	6
Valency:	intransitive; transitive
Case:	locative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ
voc
acc	knānmānäṃt, knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ	knānmānäñcäṣ, knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ
gen	knānmāntāp		knānmāñcäśśi
loc			knānmāñcsaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• knā-
  • knā- “to know” gv
    • āknats “ignorant, foolish”

      	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
      nom	āknats	āknats	ākntsāñ
      acc	āknatsäṃ
      gen				ākntsāśśi

      • ākntsune “ignorance, stupidity” n

        	sg
        nom	ākntsune
        acc	ākntsune
        gen	ākntsuneyis
        inst	ākntsuneyo

        • ākntsuneṣi “ignorance, stupidity”

          	sg.m
          acc	ākntsuneṣiṃ

    • knā- “to know” gv.prs6

      	sg.act	pl.act
      1	knānam
      2	knānat
      3	knānaṣ	knāneñc

      • knānmāṃ “a wise person” “knowing” part.prs6

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ
        acc	knānmānäṃt, knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ	knānmānäñcäṣ, knānmāṃ	knānmāṃ
        gen	knānmāntāp		knānmāñcäśśi
        loc			knānmāñcsaṃ

        • knānmune “knowledge” n.prs6

          	sg	pl
          nom	knānmune	knānmuneyntu
          acc	knānmune	knānmuneyntu
          gen	knānmuneyis
          loc	knānmuneyaṃ
          inst	knānmuneyo
          abl	knānmuneyäṣ
          perl	knānmuneyā
          all	knānmuneyac

          • knānmuneṣi “related to knowledge” prs6

            	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
            nom	knāṃmuneṣi	knāṃmuneṣi	knānmuneṣiñi
            acc	knānmuneṣiṃ

      • knānal “to be known” part.prs6
      • knānal “knowing” abstr.n.prs6

        	sg
        nom	knānal
        acc	knānal

Occurrences

knānmāñcsaṃ

1

A 151 b3

2σ /// pāpṣuñcsaṃ ;

knānmāñcsaṃ

pat nu ; pā

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.