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twāsäṣṣim

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Meaning:	“to kindle”
Word class:	tense_stem
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	twāsäṣṣim
Person:	first
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	optative
Root character:	a-character; alt-a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-schwa
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	9b
Voice:	active

Paradigm

Lexeme family

• tuwā-
  • tuw- kaus
    • tuw- kaus.subj9b

      	sg.act
      1	twāsäṣṣim
      3	twāṣṣäṃ

      • twāsässi inf.n.kaus.subj9b

        	sg
        nom	twāsässi
        acc	twāsässi

  • tuwā- gv
    • tuwā- gv.prs9a

      	sg.mid
      3	twasastär

Commentary

The root is parallel to s(u)wā-/swās(ā)- 'to rain', i.e., we are dealing with a basis twā- < *tuwā- (itself from PIE *dhweh2-; see Hackstein 1995: 352f.) expanded by a suffix -sā-.

Occurrences

twāsäṣṣim

1

THT 364 a4

…ṣṣe ṣpä cok ñiś

twāsäṣṣim

/// a5/// ññaisa

Bibliography

Hackstein 1995

Hackstein, Olav. 1995. Untersuchungen zu den sigmatischen Präsensstammbildungen des Tocharischen. HS Erg.-Heft 38. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.