nätkässi

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “hold off, push away”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	nätkässi
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	nätkässi
voc
acc	nätkässi
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• nätkā-
  • natäk “urge, pressure” m

    	sg
    nom	natäk
    acc	natäk
    inst	natäkyo

  • nätk- “hold off, push away” kaus
    • nätk- “hold off, push away” kaus.pret2

      	sg.mid
      3	nanätkāt

      • ñañitku “hold off, push away” part.pret2

        	sg.m
        nom	ñañitku

    • nätk- “hold off, push away” kaus.prs8
      • nätkässi “hold off, push away” inf.n.prs8

        	sg
        nom	nätkässi
        acc	nätkässi

    • nätkā- “hold off, push away” kaus.pret1

      	pl.act
      3	ñätkär

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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