tāpal

Cite this page as:	"tāpal". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_tāpal_1 (accessed 11 Dec. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “eating, food, feeding”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	tāpal
Number:	singular
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	5
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	tāpal	tāpalntu
voc
acc	tāpal	tāpalntu
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• tāpā-
  • tāpā- “to eat” gv
    • tāpā- “to eat” gv.subj5

      	sg.act
      1	tāpim
      3	tāpaṣ, tāpaṣ-äṃ

      • tāplune “to eat” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	tāplune
        acc	tāplune
        loc	tāpluneyaṃ

        • tāpluneṣi “pertaining to consumption” subj5

          	pl.f
          acc	tāpluneṣinās

      • tāpal “to eat” part.subj5

        	sg.m
        nom	tāpal

      • tāpal “eating, food, feeding” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg	pl
        nom	tāpal	tāpalntu
        acc	tāpal	tāpalntu

    • tāpā- “to eat” gv.pret1

      	sg.act	pl.act
      1		tāpamäs
      3	tāp, tāpa-ṃ, tāpa-m

      • tāppu “to eat” part.pret1

        	sg.m	sg.f
        nom	tāppu	tāppus

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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