kakautau

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Meaning:	“having been spilt/broken”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	kakautau
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-au
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-aṣ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-aṣ

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• kautā-
  • kautātstse “breakable, fragile”

    	sg.m
    nom	kautātstse
    acc	kautātstsai

  • kautā- “to split, cleave” gv
    • kautā- “to split, cleave” gv.prs6

      	sg.act	pl.act
      3	kautanaṃ	kautanoñ-c

    • kautā- “to split, cleave” gv.subj5

      	sg.act	pl.act	sg.mid
      3	kautoy	kautaṃ	kautatär

      • akautatte “unsplittable, uncleavable” priv.subj5

        	sg.m
        nom	akautatte
        acc	akautacce

      • kautalle “to split, cleave” part.subj5

        	sg.m
        nom	kautalle
        acc	kautalle

      • kautatsi “to split, cleave” inf.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	kautatsi
        acc	kautatsi
        all	kautatsiśc

      • kautalñe “to split, cleave” abstr.m.subj5

        	sg
        nom	kautalñe
        acc	kautalñe

    • kautā- “to split, cleave” gv.pret1

      	sg.act	sg.mid	pl.mid
      2	kautāsta
      3	kauta	kautāte	kautāṃte

      • kakautau “having been spilt/broken” part.pret1

        	sg.m	pl.m
        nom	kakautaṣ, kakautau	kakautaṣ
        acc	kakautaṣ	kakautaṣ

Occurrences

kakautau

1	IOL Toch 11 a2	auspa ṣamāne no ;	kakautau	a3 3σ ; 5σ
2	THT 305 a6	a6 /// cate •	kakautau	ṣem ramt meṃṣträ 10-7