täṅkäṣ

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “to hinder, withhold”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	täṅk-
Lexeme variants:	täṅkäṣ
Person:	third
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	present
Root character:	non-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	present
Stem class:	8
Valency:	transitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2				täṅkäṣtār
3	täṅkäṣ				täṅksantär

Lexeme family

• täṅk-
  • täṅk- “to hinder, withhold” gv
    • täṅk- “to hinder, withhold” gv.prs8

      	sg.act	sg.mid	pl.mid
      2		täṅkäṣtār
      3	täṅkäṣ		täṅksantär

      • täṅkṣant “hindering” ptcp.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	täṅkṣant	täṅkṣant	täṅkṣantāñ	täṅkṣantāñ

      • täṅkässi “to hinder, withhold” inf.n.prs8

        	sg
        nom	täṅkässi
        acc	täṅkässi

      • täṅkṣäl “to hinder, withhold” part.prs8

        	sg.m
        nom	täṅkṣäl

    • täṅk- “to hinder, withhold” gv.subj7

      	sg.act
      3	täṅkñäṣ

    • täṅk- “to hinder, withhold” gv.pret3

      	pl.act
      3	caṅkär

    • täṅk- “to hinder, withhold” gv.subj1
      • täṅklune “to hinder, withhold” abstr.n.subj1

        	sg
        nom	täṅklune
        acc	täṅklune

Occurrences

täṅkäṣ

1

A 408 b4

/// b4 /// mac

täṅkäṣ

• /// b5 ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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