sākñim

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Meaning:	“to restrain” Carling and Pinault 2023: “to remain”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	sāk-
Lexeme variants:	sākñim

Person:	first
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	optative
Root character:	alt-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-full
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	7
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

sākā-
- sāk- “to remain” “to restrain” agv
  - sāk- “to remain” “to restrain” agv.subj7
    
    sg.act
    
    1 sākñim
  - sāk- “to remain” “to restrain” agv.subj9b
    - sākässi “to restrain, leave behind, restraining, leaving behind” inf.n.subj9b
      
      sg
      
      nom sākässi
      
      acc sākässi
- sākā- “to remain” gv
  - sākā- “to remain” gv.prs4
    
    pl.mid
    
    3 sakantär
  - sākā- “to remain” gv.subj5
    
    pl.act
    
    3 sākeñc
  - sākā- “to remain” gv.pret1
    
    sg.act
    
    3 sāk

Occurrences

sākñim

1

sk· : koṃ ñkät

b5 /// tāṣ :

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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