kotnatsi

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Meaning:	“to split, cleave” Carling and Pinault 2023: “to split”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	kotnatsi

Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	6
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

kotā-
- kotā- “to split” “to split, cleave” gv
  - kotā- “to split” “to split, cleave” gv.prs6
    
    sg.act pl.act
    
    3 kotnaṣ kotnec
    - kotnatsi “to split” “to split, cleave” inf.n.prs6
      
      sg
      
      nom kotnatsi
      
      acc kotnatsi
    - kotnaṃt “splitting, cleaving” ptcp.prs6
      
      sg.m sg.f
      
      nom kotnaṃt kotnaṃt
  - kotā- “to split” “to split, cleave” gv.pret1
    
    sg.act pl.act
    
    2 kotas
    
    3 kot
    - kākotu “to split” “to split, cleave” part.pret1
      - kākoturäṣ “to split” “to split, cleave” abstr.pret1
        
        sg
        
        abl kākoturäṣ
  - kotā- “to split” “to split, cleave” gv.subj5
    - kotlune “splitting” abstr.n.subj5
      
      sg
      
      nom kotlune
      
      acc kotlune
      
      loc kotluneyaṃ
      
      abl kotluneyäṣ

Occurrences

kotnatsi

1

/// ltsuneyo cam kärkṣiṃ

rsunātsi pat mā cä

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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