mentsiñe

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Meaning:	“solicitude, concernedness”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	mentsiñe; meṃtsñe
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	mentsiñe
voc
acc	mentsiñe
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

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

mentsiñe

1

THT 1105 b5

w· – – – – – (po)stañe snai

mentsiñe

mäsket(ar) mäkte kattāki śāmna(n)e

meṃtsñe

1

THT 22 b1

wsāwa wnob1(lmets) ; (s)n(ai)

meṃtsñe

: kuce ṣp pudñäkte