tkālune

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Meaning:	“discernment, sustained thinking” Carling and Pinault 2023: “touch, contact”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	tkālune
Number:	singular
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	5
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• täkā-
  • täkā- “to touch” gv
    • täkā- “to touch” gv.prs1/2

      	pl.act
      3	ckeñc

    • täkā- “to touch” gv.subj5
      • tkālune “touch, contact” “discernment, sustained thinking” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	tkālune
        acc	tkālune

Occurrences

tkālune

1	A 222 a4	kl(eśāñ) (ñätkär) ; (śuk)	(tkālune)	; a5 (nakät) (ā)ttsek
2	A 291 b5	/// (kä)b5lymā-ṃ kanweṃṣinās tāpäkyā(s)	(tkālune)	/// (gośagat) (ṣo)b6tre śkänt
3	A 384 b5	träṅkträ ॥ vicāra •	tkālune	ätsaṃ nāṃtsu : cittasaukṣmalakṣaṇa
4	YQ II.4 b7	(āmpi) (ālenyo) (kanweṃṣinās) (tāpäkyās)	(tkālune)	(9) (ājā)nai oṅkälyme oki
5	YQ II.10 b2	mā nmo kanweṃ ;	tkālune	: ainey b3

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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