mäṅkau

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Meaning:	“to be inferior, lack, be deprived of”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	mäṅkau

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	mäṅkau
voc
acc
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

mäṅkā-
- mäṅkā- “to be inferior, lack, be deprived of” gv
  - mäṅkā- “to be inferior, lack, be deprived of” gv.prs3
    
    sg.mid
    
    3 mäṅketär
  - mäṅkā- “to be inferior, lack, be deprived of” gv.subj5
    
    pl.act pl.mid
    
    1 mäṅkāmo
    
    3 mäṅkāntär, mäṅkāntär-me
    - mäṅkālñe “to be inferior, lack, be deprived of” abstr.n.subj5
      
      sg
      
      nom mäṅkālñe
      
      acc mäṅkālñe
  - mäṅkā- “to be inferior, lack, be deprived of” gv.pret1
    
    sg.act
    
    1 mäṅkāwa
    - mäṅkau “to be inferior, lack, be deprived of” part.pret1
      
      sg.m
      
      nom mäṅkau
- mäṅk- “to overcome” kaus
  - mäṅk- “to overcome” kaus.subj9b
    
    sg.act
    
    1 maṅkäṣṣim

Occurrences

mäṅkau

1

IOL Toch 127 a7

• se rano ṣamāa7ne

mäsketrä