prakässi

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “(act.) ask for, beg”; “(mid.) ask, bring up a question”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	prakässi
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	prakässi
voc
acc	prakässi
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

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

prakässi

1	A 50 a2	/// a2 ///	(pra)kässi	oki kātse yeṣ tmäṣ
2	YQ II.10 b8	upādhyā bādhari b8 ///	prakässi	päknāsanträ • kuyal mā
3	YQ III.1 a5	träṅkäṣ ptāñkät käṣyāp śämlune	prakässi	yäm kupre aśśi lo
4	YQ III.4 b7	/// tmäṣ ṣu skamat	prakässi	wätkäṣ-ñi • ppärksār kupre

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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