māskäṣlā

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Meaning:	“to be difficult, present problems”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	māskäṣlā
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	8
Case:	perlative

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom
voc
acc
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• māskā-
  • māsk- uncertain kaus
  • māskā- “to be difficult, present problems” gv
    • māskā- “to be difficult, present problems” gv.prs6

      	sg.mid
      3	māsäṃśāt-äm

    • māskā- “to be difficult, present problems” gv.subj5

      	sg.act	pl.mid
      3	māskaṣ-äm	māskantär, māskantär-ñi

    • māskā- “to be difficult, present problems” gv.pret1

      	pl.mid
      3	māskant, māskant-ñi

      • māmäsku “to be difficult, present problems” part.pret1

        	sg.m
        nom	māmäsku

    • māskā- “to be difficult, present problems” gv.prs8
      • māskäṣäl “to be difficult, present problems” part.prs8

Occurrences

māskäṣlā

1

A 230 a3

kātkar-ñi ; rakentu ;

māskäṣlā

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