meṃṣīmar

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Meaning:	“to be sorrowful”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	meṃṣīmar
Person:	first
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	optative
Root character:	alt-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-full
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	1-2
Valency:	intransitive
Voice:	middle

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1				meṃṣīmar
2
3

Lexeme family

• māntsā-
  • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv
    • mentsi “sorrow, grief, misery” msg

      	sg
      nom	mentsi
      acc	mentsi

      • mentsiñe “solicitude, concernedness”

        	sg
        nom	mentsiñe
        acc	mentsiñe

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.prs6

      	sg.mid
      3	mantsanatär

      • mantsanamane “being sorrowful” part.prs6

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane
        acc	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane	mantsanamane

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.prs2

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      3	meṃṣtär	meṃsentär

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.subj5

      	pl.mid
      3	māntsantär

      • māṃtsalyñe “sorrow” abstr.subj5

        	sg
        nom	māṃtsalyñe
        acc	māṃtsalyñe

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.subj1/2

      	sg.mid
      1	meṃṣīmar

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.pret1

      	sg.mid
      3	mantsāte

    • mānts- “to be sorrowful” gv.impf2

      	pl.act
      3	meṃṣīyen-me

Occurrences

meṃṣīmar

1	PK AS 5B a1	7σ ; oro(ts)ñ(en)e ;	meṃṣīmar	; ynauṣak skāyoym{†ä} :
2	PK NS 27 b3	krañīwe ; orotsñesa ;	meṃṣīmar	; ynauṣkak skāyoym :
3	PS Uv 67 a5	/// ; (orot)sñ(e)ne ;	(m)eṃṣīmar	; (yn)au(ṣkak) 2σ ///
4	THT 313 a1	a1 11σ ///	(meṃṣī)mar	; ynauṣkak skāyoym :