knāntär

Cite this page as:	"knāntär". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_knāntär (accessed 15 Aug. 2026).
Meaning:	“to strew” Carling and Pinault 2023: “spread, disperse”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kätā-
Lexeme variants:	knāntär
Person:	third
Number:	plural
Tense/Mood:	present
Root character:	a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	present
Stem class:	6
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	middle

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

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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