tlässi

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “to lift up, raise, bear, carry”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	tlässi
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	8
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• tälā-
  • tälā- “to lift up”
    • tläś “burden, load”

      	sg
      nom	tläś
      acc	tläś

      • tälyśi “tall, high”

        	sg.m
        nom	tälyśi
        acc	tälyśi

    • tälā- “to lift up” subj5
      • tlāl “to lift up” part.subj5

        	sg.f
        acc	tlālyāṃ

      • tlālune “to lift up” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	tlālune
        acc	tlālune
        inst	tlāluneyo

  • täl- “to lift up, raise, bear, carry”
    • täl- “to lift up, raise, bear, carry” prs8

      	sg.mid
      3	tläṣtär

      • tlässi “to lift up, raise, bear, carry” inf.n.prs8

        	sg
        nom	tlässi
        acc	tlässi

    • täl- “to lift up, raise, bear, carry” pret2

      	sg.act
      3	cacäl, caclā-ṃ

      • caclu “to lift up, raise, bear, carry” part.pret2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	caclunt	caclunt	caclunt	caclunt
        acc	caclunt	caclunt	caclunt	caclunt

        • caclur “to lift up, raise, bear, carry” abstr.n.pret2

          	sg
          abl	cacluräṣ

Occurrences

tlässi

1	A 100 b3	maṅk caṣ klop nāñi	tl{a→ä}ssi	ṣom śolyo b4 ///
2	A 244 b4	lyāṃ cwäṣ ālyaknā ;	tlässi	tām tu ; ca

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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