wärcetsune

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “lack, defect”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	wärcetsune
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• wärce “(adj.uni.) lacking, defective, short of” “(n.) lack, defect, shortage” “inferior, deficient, bad”
  • wärce “error, fault”

    	sg
    acc	wärce

  • wärcets “faulty, defective”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	wärcets	wärcetse

  • wärcetsune “lack, defect” n

    	sg
    nom	wärcetsune
    acc	wärcetsune

  • wärcetswātsune “lack” n

    	sg
    nom	wärcetswātsune
    acc	wärcetswātsune
    perl	wärcetswātsuneyā

Occurrences

wärcetsune

1

A 44 a2

ne śtwar mahā(bhūtäntu) ///

(wä)a3rcetsune

kälpitär mā /// a4

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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