wcäṣ

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Meaning:	“second”
Word class:	adjective
Word subclass:	ordinal
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	wate
Lexeme variants:	wcäṣ; wcanäṣ
Number:	singular
Case:	ablative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	wät	wci
voc
acc	wäc	wäccāṃ	wces
gen	wcanis
loc	wcanaṃ, wcanan-äkk
comit	wcaśśäl
inst
abl	wcäṣ
perl	wcā
all	wcac
caus

Lexeme family

• wät “second”
  • wces “better”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
    nom	wces	wces	wces	wces
    acc	wces	wces	wces	wces

  • wtaṣ “a second time”
  • wtā “again”
  • wtākot “again indeed”

Occurrences

wcäṣ

1

A 347 a3

puk tsaa3ramäs ; ālam

wcäṣ

: kuc ny ākrunt

wcanäṣ

1	A 128 and 130 b6	ṣmeñc kus cesmi (ālam)	(wcanäṣ)	(wākä)
2	A 212 a2	/// a2 /// ālam	wcanäṣ	śralune mā kläsmāṃ ///
3	YQ II.4 a1	/// (manarkā)ñ{†ä} ālam	wcanäṣ	śralune mā kläsmāṃ ṣoa2(kyo)
4	YQ III.10 a4	āṣāa4(nik) /// (ā)lās ālam	wcanäṣ	wākäm n-äm ॥ ptāñkät