mäskeñcañ

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Meaning:	“being, becoming”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	mäskant
Lexeme variants:	mäskeñcañ
Number:	plural
Stem:	present
Stem class:	3
Valency:	intransitive
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine; feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-a
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ai
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• mäskā-
  • mäskā- “to be, become” gv
    • mäskā- “to be, become” gv.prs3

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1	mäskīmar-c, mäskemar	mäskemtär
      2	mäsketar
      3	mäskītär, mäsketär, mäsketär-ñ, mäsketär-ne, mäsketär-me	mäskīyentär, mäskentär, mäskentär-ne, mäskentär-me

      • mäskelle “to be, become” part.prs3

        	sg.m
        nom	mäskelle

      • mäskemane “being, becoming” part.prs3

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mäskemane	mäskemane	mäskemane	mäskemane
        acc	mäskemane	mäskemane	mäskemane	mäskemane
        gen	mäskemanentse	mäskemanentse

      • mäskeñca “being, becoming” ptcp.prs3

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mäskeñca	mäskeñca	mäskeñcañ	mäskeñcañ
        acc	mäskeñcai	mäskeñcai

    • mäskā- “to be, become” gv.pret1

      	sg.act
      3	maska

    • mäskā- “to be, become” gv.subj5
      • maskālläññe “to be, become” abstr.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	maskālläññe
        acc	maskālläññe

Occurrences

mäskeñcañ

1	THT 4 b4	b4 /// ne	mäskeñcañ	śtwer ṣa(māni) /// b5
2	THT 387.a b4	yolmi asāre /// b4	mäskeñcañ	///