koṣtlune

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “striking”; “killing”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	koṣtlune
Number:	singular
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	5
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	koṣtlune
voc
acc	koṣtlune
gen	koṣtluneyis
loc
comit
inst	koṣtluneyo
abl
perl	koṣtluneyā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• koṣtā-
  • koṣtā- “to hit, beat” gv
    • koṣtā- “to hit, beat” gv.subj5

      	sg.act	pl.act
      1	koṣtam
      3		koṣteñc

      • koṣtlaṃ part.subj5

        	pl.f
        nom	koṣtlaṃ

      • koṣtlune “striking” “killing” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	koṣtlune
        acc	koṣtlune
        gen	koṣtluneyis
        inst	koṣtluneyo
        perl	koṣtluneyā

        • koṣtluneṣi “belonging to a striking” subj5

          	sg.m	sg.f
          acc	koṣtluneṣiṃ	koṣtluneṣiṃ

    • koṣtā- “to hit, beat” gv.pret1

      	sg.act	pl.act
      3	koṣt, koṣt-ñi	koṣtar, koṣtar-äṃ

      • kākoṣtu “to hit, beat” part.pret1

        	sg.m	pl.m
        nom	kākoṣtu	kākoṣtuṣ

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.