preñca

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Meaning:	“bearing, wearing, carrying, taking”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	prant
Lexeme variants:	preñca
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	2
Valency:	transitive
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine; feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-a
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ai
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	preñca	preñca
voc
acc	preñcai	preñcai	preñcaṃ	preñcaṃ
gen
loc			preñcaṃne	preñcaṃne
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• pär-
  • pär- “to bear, wear, carry, take” gv
    • pär- “to bear, wear, carry, take” gv.prs2

      	sg.act	pl.act
      2		parcer
      3	paräṃ	priyeṃ, pareṃ

      • premane “bearing, wearing, carrying, taking” part.prs2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	premane	premane	premane	premane
        acc	premane	premane	premane	premane

      • preñca “bearing, wearing, carrying, taking” ptcp.prs2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	preñca	preñca
        acc	preñcai	preñcai	preñcaṃ	preñcaṃ
        loc			preñcaṃne	preñcaṃne

      • pralle “taking, bearing, carrying” part.prs2

        	sg.m	sg.f
        nom	pralle	pralya

Occurrences

preñca

1	IOL Toch 601 b3	/// b3 /// ke	preñca	॥ käñca /// b4
2	PK NS 48 and 258 b4	po cmelane sob4motkäññe arañcne	preñca	tākoym krentants enäṣlñene kektseñ
3	PK NS 160 b3	/// (pelai)kneṣṣe ykā-k wimāṃ	pre(ñca)	b4 /// ci ysapar
4	THT 92 b3	tapre ; kektseṃtsa ;	pre(ñca)	(yai)nmu ; ṣañ ykene
5	THT 132 a2	ne maiyya aksaṣṣäṃ 40-4	preñca	krent yakne ca ///
6	THT 1171 b4	/// s· ne śūke	preñca	nantso ytār· /// b5
7	THT 1215.d a1	– – na yä sna	preñca	po – /// b1
8	THT 2959 a5	rpo ·e ·i māṃ	preñca	ñ·ā ·ṃ /// (tsä)a6mṣeñca