pepakṣu

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Meaning:	“has been cooking, boiling, stewing”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	pepakṣu
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	4
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-u
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-oṣ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-oṣ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	pepakṣu			pepakṣuwa
voc
acc				pepakṣuwa
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• päk-
  • päk- “to let cook (?)” kaus
    • päk- “to let cook (?)” kaus.pret4
      • pepakṣu “has been cooking, boiling, stewing” part.pret4

        	sg.m	pl.f
        nom	pepakṣu	pepakṣuwa
        acc		pepakṣuwa

  • päk- “(act.) to cook, let ripen” “(mid.) to cook, ripen” gv
    • päk- “(act.) to cook, let ripen” “(mid.) to cook, ripen” gv.prs8

      	sg.act	pl.act	sg.mid
      3	pakṣäṃ	päkṣiyeñ-c, pakseṃ	pakṣtär, pakṣtär-ne

      • päksemane “cooking, ripening” part.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	päksemane	päksemane	päksemane	päksemane
        acc	päksemane	päksemane	päksemane	päksemane

      • päkṣalle “having to be cooked, letting ripen” part.prs8

        	sg.m	sg.f
        nom	päkṣalle	päkṣalya

    • päk- “(act.) to cook, let ripen” “(mid.) to cook, ripen” gv.subj3
      • pkelñe medical term “ripening, maturity” “bad digestion” abstr.subj3

        	sg
        nom	pkelñe
        acc	pkelñe
        gen	pkelñentse

    • päk- “(act.) to cook, let ripen” “(mid.) to cook, ripen” gv.pret3
      • papeku “(act.) to cook, let ripen” “(mid.) to cook, ripen” part.pret3

        	sg.m
        nom	papeku

Occurrences

pepakṣu

1	PK AS 2B a1	athā{ma}yaghnaṃ 90-2 ॥ arirākäṃmpa	pepakṣu	kaṣāy śak danthipal piś
2	THT 497 b4	॥ sālesa kewib4ye wentsa	pepakṣu	kuñcītäṣṣe ṣalype udāvarttäntse gurmantse