wcanis

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Meaning:	“second”
Word class:	adjective
Word subclass:	ordinal
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	wate
Lexeme variants:	wcanis
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
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

wcanis

1	A 72 a6	a6 /// neyo ālam	wcanis	śol tätkässi päskāyäs b1
2	A 262 b8	(se)b8wāñ pācri oki ālam	wcanis	umpar (yā)mluneyā prākär prosanträ
3	YQ N.5 b1	b1 /// (āla)m	wcanis	umpar yāmluneyā prākrä prosaṃträ