närkässi

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Meaning:	“to keep away, refrain from” Carling and Pinault 2023: “keep away, renounce”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	närkässi
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	8
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	närkässi
voc
acc	närkässi
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• närk-
  • närk- “keep away, renounce” “to keep away, refrain from” kaus
    • närk- “keep away, renounce” “to keep away, refrain from” kaus.prs8
      • närkässi “keep away, renounce” “to keep away, refrain from” inf.n.prs8

        	sg
        nom	närkässi
        acc	närkässi

    • närk- “keep away, renounce” “to keep away, refrain from” kaus.subj9
      • närkāṣlune “keep away, renounce” “to keep away, refrain from” abstr.n.subj9

        	sg	pl
        nom	närkāṣlune
        acc	närkāṣlune	närkāṣluneyntu
        gen	närkāṣluneyiss
        inst	närkāṣluneyo
        perl	närkāṣluneyā

    • närk- “keep away, renounce” “to keep away, refrain from” kaus.pret2
      • ñañärku “keep away, renounce” “to keep away, refrain from” part.pret2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	ñañärkunt	ñañärkunt	ñañärkunt	ñañärkunt
        acc	ñañärkunt	ñañärkunt	ñañärkunt	ñañärkunt

Occurrences

närkässi

1	A 222 b4	(wäknäṣ) (mā) b4 (säm)	(nä)rkässi	; antuṣ nwāt ;
2	A 239 b5	3σ b5 säm ;	närkässi	; antuṣ nwāt klā

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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