wawru

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Meaning:	“to practice” Carling and Pinault 2023: “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	wawru
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	2
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-nt
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ṣ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	wawru, wawrunt	wawrunt	wawruṣ, wawrunt	wawrunt
voc
acc	wawrunt	wawrunt	wawrunt	wawrunt
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• wär-
  • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus
    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.subj9

      	pl.act	sg.mid
      1	wrāṣimäs
      3		wrāṣtär

      • wrāṣlune “development” abstr.n.subj9

        	sg
        nom	wrāṣlune
        acc	wrāṣlune

    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.imp2

      	pl.mid
      2	purāc

    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.prs8
      • wärsmāṃ “practicing” part.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ
        acc	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ	wärsmāṃ

    • wär- “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” kaus.pret2
      • wawru “purify (one’s own mind), cultivate, develop (by means of meditation)” “to practice” part.pret2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	wawru, wawrunt	wawrunt	wawruṣ, wawrunt	wawrunt
        acc	wawrunt	wawrunt	wawrunt	wawrunt

Occurrences

wawru

1

A 247 b1

(10-8) – kratsuneyo ;

wawru

ṣñ(i) āñcäm{†ä} ; pñi