s_ukaṃ

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “(n.) happiness, luck, fortune”; “(adj.uni.) fortunate”; “(adv.) fortunately”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	sakw
Lexeme variants:	sukaṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	locative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	suk	sukuntu
voc
acc	suk	sukuntu
gen	sukis	sukuntwis
loc	sukaṃ
comit	sukaśśäl
inst	sukyo	sukuntuyo
abl
perl
all	sukac
caus

Lexeme family

• suk “(n.) happiness, luck, fortune” “(adj.uni.) fortunate” “(adv.) fortunately” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	suk	sukuntu
  acc	suk	sukuntu
  gen	sukis	sukuntwis
  loc	sukaṃ
  comit	sukaśśäl
  inst	sukyo	sukuntuyo
  all	sukac

  • s_ukaṣi “causing happiness of pleasure”

    	sg.m	pl.f
    acc	sukaṣiṃ, sukaṣinäṃ	sukaṣinās

  • skassu “happy”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	skassu	skassuṣ

Occurrences

s_ukaṃ

1	A 74 b3	kāpñe seyäṣ näṣ :	sukaṃ	śāśo ṣeṣ ; kārkäryāṣi
2	A 356 b2	śkaṃ l(ālaṃṣk) · ñ	suk(aṃ)	śāśoṣ – – – lko – – –

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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