wawāyau

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Meaning:	“to lead, guide, drive”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	wawāyau; wawayau
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	wawāyaṣ, wawāyau		wawāyaṣ
voc
acc	wawāyaṣ		wawāyaṣ
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• wāyā-
  • wāyā- “to lead, guide, drive” gv
    • wāyā- “to lead, guide, drive” gv.subj5

      	sg.act	pl.act	sg.mid
      1			wāyoymar, wāyoymar-me
      3	wāyoy, wayaṃ	wāyaṃ, wāyau-me

      • wāyatsi “to lead, guide, drive” inf.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	wāyatsi
        acc	wāyatsi

      • wāyalle “to lead, guide, drive” part.subj5

        	sg.m
        nom	wāyalle

    • wāyā- “to lead, guide, drive” gv.pret1

      	sg.act	pl.act	sg.mid	pl.mid
      2	pāyāsta
      3	wāya	wayāre, wayāre-ne	wayāte, wayāte-ne	wayānte

      • wawāyau “to lead, guide, drive” part.pret1

        	sg.m	pl.m
        nom	wawāyaṣ, wawāyau	wawāyaṣ
        acc	wawāyaṣ	wawāyaṣ

    • wāyā- “to lead, guide, drive” gv.imp1

      	sg.mid
      2	pwāyar-me

Occurrences

wawāyau

1	IOL Toch 1 a1	po araṃśmeṃ mantsana(tär) ///	(wawā)a2yau	ste se śaiṣṣe ॥
2	PK NS 48 and 258 b1	mā tākoy aiśamñe añmālaṣkñentse	wawāyau	eṣke pañäktäñe perne kä(llālñe)
3	PK NS 112 b4	b4 /// ñ(i)ś mātärsa	wawāyau	; präthagjaññe b5 ///
4	THT 46 a6	āmācänta : ṣañ yāmorntats	wawāyau	ṅke ; yat ñke

wawayau

1

THT 209.a b4

wīnaskau /// b4 –

wawayau

wantre aisi ///