tsatsākau

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Meaning:	“to pierce, bite”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	tsatsākau
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ṣ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ṣ

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• tsākā-
  • tsākā- “to pierce, bite” gv
    • tsākā- “to pierce, bite” gv.prs6

      	sg.act	pl.act
      3	tsaknoy, tsāknaṃ	tsaknoyeñ-c

    • tsākā- “to pierce, bite” gv.subj5

      	sg.act
      3	tsākaṃ, tsākaṃ-ne

    • tsākā- “to pierce, bite” gv.pret1

      	sg.act
      3	tsāka

      • tsatsākau “to pierce, bite” part.pret1

        	sg.m
        nom	tsatsākau

Occurrences

tsatsākau

1

THT 40 b2

saim wästa : eśne

tsatsākau

mā /// b3 ///