purāc

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Meaning:	“to practice” Carling and Pinault 2023: “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	wär-
Lexeme variants:	purāc
Person:	second
Number:	plural
Tense/Mood:	imperative
Root character:	non-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	imperative
Stem class:	2
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	middle

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• wär-
  • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus
    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.subj9

      	pl.act	sg.mid
      1	wrāṣimäs
      3		wrāṣtär

      • wrāṣlune “development” abstr.n.subj9

        	sg
        nom	wrāṣlune
        acc	wrāṣlune

    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.imp2

      	pl.mid
      2	purāc

    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.prs8
      • wärsmāṃ “practicing” part.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ
        acc	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ

    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.pret2
      • wawru “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” part.pret2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	wawru, wawrunt	wawrunt	wawruṣ, wawrunt	wawrunt
        acc	wawrunt	wawrunt	wawrunt	wawrunt

Occurrences

purāc

1

A 31 a6

(waṣtä)a6ṣ picäs sne waṣt

purāc

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Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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