māskyās

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “(adj.) difficult, hard, troublesome”; “(adv.) with difficulty”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	māskw
Lexeme variants:	māskyās
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	feminine

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• māski “(adj.) difficult, hard, troublesome” “(adv.) with difficulty”

  	sg.m	pl.f
  nom	māski
  acc	māski	māskyās

Occurrences

māskyās

1	YQ II.5 b3	• nakṣacarita purāṇä kupāraṃ	māb4(skyās)	(sañceyntu) (sākät) (kälymāṃ) (pältsäkyo-kk)
2	YQ II.11 b6	(ālko)n(t) (ti)r(th)eṣinās śāsträntwaṃ kupāraṃ	māskyās	arthantu pältsäb7(kyo) /// ākṣiññuräṣ

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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