sukac

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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:	sukac; sukac
Number:	singular
Case:	allative
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_ukac

1	A 218 b3	kus ne ālu ;	sukac	mā tāṣ : 10-7
2	A 269 and 290 a5	(pukis) (plānto)wac ; kāswac	(su)k(a)c	: näṣ p(e)nu kalk(am)
3	A 306 a5	a5 /// (ārki)śoṣṣis	sukac	kus ne pñi(ntu) ///

sukac

1

A 359 a39

/// a39 /// cmolṣī

sukac

śkaṃ । 4 ।