mälkānt

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “join, put together, put on”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	mälkā-
Lexeme variants:	mälkānt
Person:	third
Number:	plural
Tense/Mood:	preterite
Root character:	a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	middle

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3					mälkānt

Lexeme family

• mälkā-
  • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv
    • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv.subj5

      	sg.act
      1	malkam-äm

    • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv.pret1

      	pl.mid
      3	mälkānt

      • mälko “having (been) put together” part.pret1

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mälko, mälkont	mälkont	mälkoṣ, mälkont	mälkont
        acc	mälkont	mälkont	mälkoṣäs, mälkont	mälkont
        loc			mälkoñcsaṃ

    • mälkā- “join, put together, put on” gv.prs7
      • mläṅkmāṃ “being put together” part.prs7

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ
        acc	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ	mläṅkmāṃ

Occurrences

mälkānt

1

A 12 b1

cem āyäntu puskāsyo kaśal

mälkā(nt)

(tri)b2t p(enu) (ce)sm-äk āyäntu

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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