tarkas

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Meaning:	“earring”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	tarkas
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	tark	tarkañ
voc
acc	tark	tarkas
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• tärk-
  • tärk- “twine, roll, twist” “~ to lose (one's consciousness)” gv
    • tark “earring” m

      	sg	pl
      nom	tark	tarkañ
      acc	tark	tarkas

    • tärk- “twine, roll, twist” “~ to lose (one's consciousness)” gv.pret3

      	sg.act	pl.act
      3	crakäs	crakär

      • tatärku “twine, roll, twist” “~ to lose (one's consciousness)” part.pret3

        	sg.m	pl.m
        nom	tatärku	tatärkuṣ

Occurrences

tarkas

1	A 156 b4	kātkmāṃ nāṃtsus ṣñi klośnäṣ	tarkas	/// b5 /// s
2	A 171 b6	॥ yarā /// b6	tarkas	nu pūrpār tu ñukäṣ