papaikau

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Meaning:	“having been painted”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	papaikau
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-au
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-aṣ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-aṣ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	papaikaṣ, papaikau		papaikaṣ
voc
acc	papaikaṣ		papaikaṣ
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• pikā-
  • pikā- “to paint, write” gv
    • pikā- “to paint, write” gv.prs7

      	sg.act
      3	piṅkäṃ

      • piṅkalle “painting, scribing” part.prs7

        	sg.m
        nom	piṅkalle

      • piṅkemane “painting, writing” part.prs7

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	piṅkemane	piṅkemane	piṅkemane	piṅkemane
        acc	piṅkemane	piṅkemane	piṅkemane	piṅkemane

    • pikā- “to paint, write” gv.subj5

      	sg.mid
      3	paiykatär-ne

      • paikatsi “to paint, write” inf.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	paikatsi
        acc	paikatsi

      • paikalñe “writing” abstr.subj5

        	sg
        nom	paikalñe
        acc	paikalñe
        perl	paikalñesa

    • pikā- “to paint, write” gv.pret1

      	sg.act	pl.act	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1		paiykām	paiykāmai, paikāmai
      3	paiyka	paiykāre	paikāte	paikānte

      • papaikau “having been painted” part.pret1

        	sg.m	pl.m
        nom	papaikaṣ, papaikau	papaikaṣ
        acc	papaikaṣ	papaikaṣ

Occurrences

papaikau

1	PK AS 6C a5	ost poṣiyantsa ; waa5wārpau	papaikau	āstre : ṣim mā
2	PK DA M 507.37 and .36 a85	sū – – a85 nauṣameṃ	papaikau	ste • su keś