tatärkuṣ

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Meaning:	“~ to lose (one's consciousness)” Carling and Pinault 2023: “twine, roll, twist”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	tatärkuṣ
Number:	plural
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	3
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	tatärku		tatärkuṣ
voc
acc
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

tatärkuṣ

1

PK NS 4 a3

– viṣṇu mahiśvaa3r ;

tatärkuṣ

swaṃce täm tu ;

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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