pärksāt

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “(act.) ask for, beg”; “(mid.) ask, bring up a question”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	pärk-
Lexeme variants:	pärksāt; präksāt
Person:	third
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	preterite
Root character:	non-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	3
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	middle

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1	prakwā-ci
2
3	prakäs, praksā-ṃ			pärksāt	präksānt

Lexeme family

• pärk-
  • pärk- “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” gv
    • pärk- “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” gv.prs8

      	sg.act	pl.act	sg.mid
      1	praksam	praksamäs	prakäsmār-ci
      3		prakseñc	prakäṣtär

      • prakässi “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” inf.n.prs8

        	sg
        nom	prakässi
        acc	prakässi

      • prakṣant “asking for, begging” ptcp.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	prakṣant	prakṣant	prakṣäntāñ	prakṣäntāñ

      • prakṣäl “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” part.prs8

        	sg.m
        nom	prakṣäl

    • pärk- “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” gv.subj1

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1	pärkmār, pärkmār-ci
      2		pärkcär
      3		pärkäntär

      • pärklune “asking, questioning” abstr.n.subj1

        	sg	pl
        nom	pärklune
        acc	pärklune	pärkluneytu
        gen		pärkluneytwāśśi

    • pärk- “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” gv.pret3

      	sg.act	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1	prakwā-ci
      3	prakäs, praksā-ṃ	pärksāt	präksānt

      • papräku “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” part.pret3

        	sg.m
        nom	papräku

    • pärk- “(act.) ask for, beg” “(mid.) ask, bring up a question” gv.imp3

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      2	ppärksār	ppärksāc, ppärksāc-äṃ

Occurrences

pärksāt

1	A 340 b7	tmi(s) (ca)ṣ oko ;	pär{k}sāt	säṃ – ; b8
2	A 436 b4	wäl klyoṣ rapeṣiṃ waśeṃ	pärksāt	kus täṣ ·e ///

präksāt

1	A 210 a1	a1 /// m	präksāt	mā ·e /// a2
2	A 432 a5	/// a5 /// kāṃ	präksāt	kupre n(e) tñi warwiśke

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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