cäñcare

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Meaning:	“lovely, delightful, pleasurable”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	ciñcär
Lexeme variants:	cäñcare; cäñcre
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-e
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-eṃ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-eñ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	cäñcare			cäñcarona
voc
acc				cäñcarona
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• cäñcare “lovely, delightful, pleasurable”

  	sg.m	pl.f
  nom	cäñcare	cäñcarona
  acc		cäñcarona

  • cäñcarñe “pleasure” msg

    	sg
    nom	cäñcarñe
    acc	cäñcarñe
    perl	cäñcarñesa

Occurrences

cäñcare

1	IOL Toch 228 a5	/// a5 /// (ṣe)k	cäñcare	/// a6 /// ·e
2	PK AS 7L b6	b6 ; (ce)wäś	cä(ñcare)	mäk(t)e ra wräṣṣi(nträ) ;
3	PK NS 130 and 192 a3	śā(strä) (:) (meṃ-ñä)kte ra	cäñc(are)	/// a4 (va)rg(anma) ///
4	THT 251 a1	te • mäntrākka alokälymi	cäñcare	(täñ) (dṛṣṭirāge)na bāliśa :

cäñcre

1	IOL Toch 810 b3	/// b3 /// –	cäñcre	smi° /// b4 ///
2	PK AS 7J a4	wnolme 20 lāre ṣek	cäñcre	lkātsi ; mäsketrä wrotse
3	THT 258 b3	kreñc(e) pi ayāto 10-5	cäñcre	/// 11σ b4 6σ
4	THT 264 a2	a2 /// artalle ṣek	cäñcre	r(e)ki tākar··· /// a3
5	THT 282 b6	• kuse cets mā	cäñ;cre	b7 5σ /// cpi
6	THT 414 a2	/// ññe nmalyñeṣṣem mā	cäñcre	/// a3 /// peñ(y)aisa
7	THT 588 a4	; wärñi lwasā =neṅkā	cäñcre	yamäskeṃ wektse ; wek{†ä}
8	THT 623 a2	a1 /// a2 ///	cäñcre	: aulārñeṣṣeṃ yakne –