nätswāṣtär

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “to let starve”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	nätswāṣtär
Person:	third
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	subjunctive
Root character:	alt-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	9
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	middle

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3				nätswāṣtär

Lexeme family

• nätswā-
  • nätsw- “to let starve” kaus
    • nätsw- “to let starve” kaus.subj9

      	sg.mid
      3	nätswāṣtär

    • nätsw- “to let starve” kaus.prs8
      • nätswassi “to let starve” inf.n.prs8

        	sg
        nom	nätswassi
        acc	nätswassi

  • nätswā- “to starve” gv
    • nätswā- “to starve” gv.prs3
      • nätswatsi “to starve” inf.n.prs3

        	sg
        nom	nätswatsi
        acc	nätswatsi

Occurrences

nätswāṣtär

1

A 74 b4

2σ /// tarkam-äṃ ;

nätswāṣtär

āñcäm : yantraṃ oki

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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