mātärsa

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Meaning:	“mother”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	mācar
Lexeme variants:	mātärsa
Number:	singular
Case:	perlative
Gender:	feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-a

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	mācer	mācera, mātärñ
voc
acc	mātär
gen	mātri
loc	mātärne
comit
inst
abl
perl	mātärsa
all
caus

Lexeme family

• mācer “mother” f

  	sg	pl
  nom	mācer	mācera, mātärñ
  acc	mātär
  gen	mātri
  loc	mātärne
  perl	mātärsa

  • matarye “maternal”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	matarye
    acc		mataryai

  • mātärṣṣe “pertaining to the mother”

    	sg.m
    nom	mātärṣṣe
    acc	mātärṣṣe

Occurrences

mātärsa

1	PK AS 6B a5	nande ñem ; poyśintse	mātärsa	procer : kektsenne ṣai
2	PK NS 112 b4	2 b4 /// ñ(i)ś	mātärsa	wawāyau ; präthagjaññe b5