ktau
| Cite this page as: | "ktau". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_B_ktau (accessed 07 Feb. 2026). |
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| Meaning: | “having strewn” |
| Word class: | adjective |
| Language: | TB |
| Lexeme variants: | ktau; ktow; ktowä |
| 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 | |
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Lexeme family
- kätā-
- kätā- “to strew”
gv
- śäktālye “seed”
n
sg pl nom śäktālye śäktālyenta acc śäktālye śäktālyenta comit śäktālyempa abl śäktālyentameṃ - kätā- “to strew”
gv.prs6
sg.act pl.act pl.mid 1 katnau 3 katnaṃ käṃtaṃ, käntaṃ-ne kätnoyentär-ne - kätā- “to strew”
gv.subj5
sg.act sg.mid pl.mid 3 kātaṃ katoytär katantar - kätā- “to strew”
gv.pret1
sg.act pl.act sg.mid pl.mid 1 śitām 2 śtasta 3 śtare ktāte ktānte
- śäktālye “seed”
n
- kätā- “to strew”
gv
Occurrences
ktow
| 1 | PK AS 7C b5 | kakkraupau ; mäsketrä : | ktow | ramt śäkt(ā)lye ; mā |
ktowä
| 1 | PK AS 7B b3 | yāmorntse ; śäktalye ā;läṃ | ktowä | alyek īkene ; ykuweṣepi |
ktau
| 1 | Kz-211-ZS-R-09 a1 | – ce a k(·)e | ktau | na se – – – o |
| 2 | PK AS 17D a5 | (śäkt)ā(lye) (se) ; (po) | ktau | no ; plakäskes yes |
| 3 | THT 365 b7 | – 1σ – – 2σ | ktau | ra ; śäktāllye kw(r)i |
| 4 | THT 1431.e b2 | – /// b2 /// | ktau | spa /// b3 /// |


