preñcai

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Meaning:	“bearing, wearing, carrying, taking”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	prant
Lexeme variants:	preñcai
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	2
Valency:	transitive
Case:	accusative
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

preñcai

1	IOL Toch 149 b4	/// b4 /// (pelai)kne	preñcai	• prājñaṃ ni(tyaṃ) ///
2	IOL Toch 302 a2	a2 /// – la	preñcai	lāre soye /// a3
3	THT 170 a2	/// a2 pi(ś) ā(ntse)ṃ	preñcai	ś· – – vā – – – –
4	THT 229 a4	; poyśiñ= ākalk ;	preñcai	ṣek : a5 10-4
5	THT 428 b5	b5 /// w· me	preñcai	pelaikneṣṣe śompo /// b6
6	THT 1173 b2	/// st ñaś śaul	preñcai	7 om no sujāte
7	THT 3597 a3	; läkutsowñaisa : maiyyā	preñcai	; vikṣnu /// 12σ