tkanac

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Meaning:	“place, earth, ground”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	keṃ
Lexeme variants:	tkanac
Number:	singular
Case:	allative
Gender:	feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	P-i

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	tkaṃ, tkan-äk	tkañi
voc
acc	tkaṃ, tkan-äk
gen	tkanis
loc	tkanaṃ	tkaṃsaṃ
comit
inst
abl	tkanäṣ	tkaṃsäṣ
perl	tkanā
all	tkanac
caus

Lexeme family

• tkaṃ “place, earth, ground” f

  	sg	pl
  nom	tkaṃ, tkan-äk	tkañi
  acc	tkaṃ, tkan-äk
  gen	tkanis
  loc	tkanaṃ	tkaṃsaṃ
  abl	tkanäṣ	tkaṃsäṣ
  perl	tkanā
  all	tkanac

  • tkaṃṣi “of the earth, terrestrial”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	tkaṃṣi	tkaṃṣi	tkaṃṣiñi
    gen	tkaṃṣināp

Occurrences

tkanac

1	A 3 a5	: 1 sas wär	tkanac	; wles wät nu
2	A 56 a1	/// (māski) (kälkā)lyāṃ	tkanac	yäl ci kuyalte ॥
3	A 444 a4	ap(tsaräntu) /// a4 ///	tkanac	koṣtar-äṃ ā·k· /// a5