malywät

Cite this page as:	"malywät". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_malywät (accessed 06 Dec. 2025).
Meaning:	“to crush, squeeze” Carling and Pinault 2023: “to oppress”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	mely-
Lexeme variants:	malywät
Person:	second
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	present
Root character:	non-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-full
Stem:	present
Stem class:	2
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2	malywät
3	malywā

Lexeme family

• malyw-
  • malyw- “to oppress” “to crush, squeeze” gv
    • malyw- “to oppress” “to crush, squeeze” gv.prs2

      	sg.act
      2	malywät
      3	malywā

      • malywmāṃ “crushing, squeezing or being crushed, squeezed (?)” part.prs2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	malywmāṃ	malywmāṃ	malywmāṃ	malywmāṃ
        acc	malywmāṃ	malywmāṃ	malywmāṃ	malywmāṃ

      • malywant “crushing, squeezing” ptcp.prs2

        	sg.m	sg.f
        nom	malywant	malywant
        acc	malywäntāṃ	malywäntāṃ

Occurrences

malywät

1

A 75 b1

ñi pä(ltsäk) (āri)ñc wtākot

malywät

kuyalte mā – – – (kā)ṣāri

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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