kakāpau

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Meaning:	“to desire, crave”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	kakāpau
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ṣ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ṣ

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• kāwā-
  • kāwā- “to desire, crave” gv
    • kāwā- “to desire, crave” gv.prs12

      	pl.mid
      3	kawāññentär

    • kāwā- “to desire, crave” gv.pret1

      	sg.mid
      3	kawāte-ne

      • kakāpau “to desire, crave” part.pret1

        	sg.m
        nom	kakāpau

    • kāwā- “to desire, crave” gv.subj5
      • kāwatsi “to desire, crave” inf.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	kāwatsi
        acc	kāwatsi

      • kāwalyñe “to desire, crave” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	kāwalyñe
        acc	kāwalyñe
        perl	kāwalyñesa

Occurrences

kakāpau

1

THT 66 a8

/// a8 /// r

kakāpau

/// b1 /// wnolme