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

(waṣtä)a6ṣ picäs sne waṣt

/// b1 ne :

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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