tamt-äṃ

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Meaning:	“to be born, come into being” Carling and Pinault 2023: “to be born”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	täm-
Lexeme variants:	tamt-äṃ
Person:	third
Number:	plural
Tense/Mood:	preterite
Pronoun suffix:	third
Root character:	non-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	preterite
Valency:	intransitive
Voice:	middle

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3				tamät	tamänt, tamt-äṃ

Lexeme family

• täm-
  • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus
    • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus.prs10

      	sg.act
      1	tmäṃsam
      3	tämnäṣ, tämnäṣ-ñi, tämnäṣṣ-äṃ

      • tämnässi “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” inf.n.prs10

        	sg
        nom	tämnässi
        acc	tämnässi

      • tmäṃṣant “begeting, generating” ptcp.prs10

        	sg.m	sg.f
        nom	tmäṃṣant	tmäṃṣant

    • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus.subj9

      	sg.mid
      3	tmāṣitär

    • täm- “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” kaus.pret4

      	pl.mid
      3	tatäṃṣānt, tatämṣānt-äṃ

      • tatämṣu “produce, generate” “to beget, generate” part.pret4

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	tatämṣu, tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt
        acc	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt	tatäṃṣunt

  • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv
    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.prs10

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	tämnäṣtär, tämnäṣtr-äṃ	tmäṃsaṃtär, tmäṃsaṃtr-äṃ

      • tmäṃṣäl “to be born” “to be born, come into being” part.prs10

        	sg.m
        nom	tmäṃṣäl

      • tmäṃsamāṃ “being born, coming into being” part.prs10

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ
        acc	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ	tmäṃsamāṃ

      • tämnässi “to be born” “to be born, come into being” inf.n.prs10

        	sg
        nom	tämnässi
        acc	tämnässi

    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.subj3

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1	cmimār	cmimtär
      3	cmatär

      • cmalune “birth” abstr.n.subj3

        	sg
        nom	cmalune
        acc	cmalune

        • cmaluneṣi “belonging to the birth” subj3

          	sg.m
          acc	cmaluneṣi, cmaluneṣiṃ

    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.pret

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	tamät	tamänt, tamt-äṃ

    • täm- “to be born” “to be born, come into being” gv.pret0
      • tatmu “having been born, come into being” part.pret0

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
        nom	tatmu		tatmuṣ
        acc		tatmus, tatmusām	tatmuñcäs
        gen	tatmuntāp

Occurrences

tamt-äṃ

1

A 24 a4

oki – – – k(ā)cke pälskaṃ

tamt-äṃ

wsokoneṣiṃ wärṣṣälyo lyutār nāṃtsu

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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