su-k

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Meaning:	demonstrative stem
Word class:	adjective
Word subclass:	pronoun
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	su-k
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	sg.n	pl.m	pl.f	pl.n	du.m	du.f	du.n
nom	se, seṃ, samp, su, su-k	sā, sāṃ, somp, sāu	te, teṃ, tamp, tu, te-k, tu-k	cai, caimp, ceya-k	toy, toyna, toymp, toṃ, tona-k		tai, tai-k
voc
acc	ce, ceṃ, comp, co, cau, ce-k, cau-k	tā, tāṃ, tomp, tāu, tā-k	te, teṃ, tamp, tu, te-k, tu-k	ceṃ, cenän, ceyna, cena-k	toy, toyna, toymp, toṃ, tona-k		tai, tai-k
gen	cwi, cwimp	tāy	tentse, tuntse	cenaṃts, ceṃts, ceynaṃts, cempaṃts, centsa-k	toynaṃts, toṃts		tainaisi, tainaisäñ
loc	cene, caune, cene-k		tūne, teṃne, tu-kne
comit	caumpa		tempa		toynampa
inst
abl	cemeṃ, caumeṃ		temen, teṃmeṃ, tammeṃ, tumeṃ	ceṃmeṃ	toṃmeṃ
perl	compsa, causa		tesa, tūsa, tusa, tusā-k	ceynasa	toṃtsa
all	cewäśc		teśc, tuśc	cenäśc
caus

Lexeme family

• s- demonstrative stem dem
  • cwiññe “pertaining to this one” “his, her, its”

    	sg.m	pl.f
    nom	cwiññe	cwiññana
    acc	cwiññe	cwiññana

  • sanuññe “hatred, enmity, hostility” msg

    	sg
    nom	sanuññe
    acc	sanuññe

  • tumpa “then, therewith”
  • tuwak “this [emphatic]”
  • tune “there in, in it”

Occurrences

su-k

1	IOL Toch 96 a4	20-5 /// a4 ///	su-k	mā ṣekä mā ra
2	IOL Toch 214 a4	· t(e)trīkoṣ caukatai eṅweṃ	su-k	cī ṣerpsa kawa(r) śerwi
3	PK AS 6A a5	lyakā-ne : wñā-neś{†a} laukar ; waśir(ṣe) ;	(su-)k	wñā-n(eś) ; laukar lyelyaku
4	PK AS 12A b3	/// (we)b3ṣṣäṃ • tumeṃ	su-k	no ṅke yśelmeṣṣe säkwä
5	PK NS 34 b4	cmelne cmetär kwri ;	su-k	cwī āklyi mäsketär :