māmäntuṣ

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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:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	māmäntuṣ
Number:	plural
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-nt
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ṣ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	māmäntu	māmäntus	māmäntuṣ
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acc
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loc
comit
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abl
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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

māmäntuṣ

1

A 337 a2

korpā träṅkäṣ (t)mäṣ cem

māmäntuṣ

kātäṅkeñc surati – – ntāṃ

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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