mäntātsi

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Meaning:	“(act.) to stir, destroy”; “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed”; “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” Carling and Pinault 2023: “(act.) to injure, offend”; “(mid.) be offended, be angry”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	mäntātsi
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
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	mäntātsi
voc
acc	mäntātsi
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• mäntā-
  • mäntā- “(act.) to injure, offend” “(mid.) be offended, be angry” “(act.) to stir, destroy” “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed” “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” gv
    • mäntā- “(act.) to injure, offend” “(mid.) be offended, be angry” “(act.) to stir, destroy” “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed” “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” gv.prs5

      	sg.act	pl.act	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1	mäntām		mäñcāwe
      2				mäntācär
      3		mänteñc		mäñcānt, mäntāntär

      • mäntātsi “(act.) to injure, offend” “(mid.) be offended, be angry” “(act.) to stir, destroy” “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed” “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” inf.n.prs5

        	sg
        nom	mäntātsi
        acc	mäntātsi

      • mäntāmāṃ “being destroyed” “being stirred” “being angry” part.prs5

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mäntāmāṃ	mäntāmāṃ	mäntāmāṃ	mäntāmāṃ
        acc	mäntāmāṃ	mäntāmāṃ	mäntāmāṃ	mäntāmāṃ

      • mäntānt “(act.) to injure, offend” “(mid.) be offended, be angry” “(act.) to stir, destroy” “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed” “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” ptcp.prs5

        	pl.f
        acc	mäntāntās

    • mäntā- “(act.) to injure, offend” “(mid.) be offended, be angry” “(act.) to stir, destroy” “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed” “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” gv.pret1

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	māntat	māntant

      • māmäntu “(act.) to injure, offend” “(mid.) be offended, be angry” “(act.) to stir, destroy” “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed” “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” part.pret1

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
        nom	māmäntu	māmäntus	māmäntuṣ

    • mäntā- “(act.) to injure, offend” “(mid.) be offended, be angry” “(act.) to stir, destroy” “(mid.) to fall into ruin, to be destroyed” “(mid.) be stirred, be angry” gv.subj5
      • māntlune “malice” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	māntlune
        acc	māntlune
        abl	māntluneyäṣ

Occurrences

mäntātsi

1	A 251 b8	mā tiri naṣ ;	(mä)ntā(tsi)	; (kärsāmäntāp) (:) (tä)myo
2	A 252 b8	mā tiri naṣ ;	mäntātsi	; kärsāmäntāp : tämyo

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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