wawlāwau

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Meaning:	“having restrained oneself”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	wawlāwau; wawlawau
Number:	singular
Stem:	preterite
Stem class:	1
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-au
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-aṣ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-aṣ

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• wlāwā-
  • wlāwā- “to control, restrain oneself” gv
    • wlāwā- “to control, restrain oneself” gv.subj5

      	sg.mid
      1	wlāwoymar
      3	wlāwatär

      • awlāwatte “to control, restrain oneself” priv.subj5

        	sg.m
        nom	awlāwatte

      • wlāwalñe “control” abstr.m.subj5

        	sg
        nom	wlāwalñe
        acc	wlāwalñe
        perl	wlāwalñesa

        • wlāwalñeṣṣe “pertaining to control” subj5

          	sg.m
          nom	wlāwalñeṣṣe
          acc	wlāwalñeṣṣe

      • wlāwatsi “control, to control” inf.n.subj5

        	sg
        nom	wlāwatsi
        acc	wlāwatsi

    • wlāwā- “to control, restrain oneself” gv.pret1

      	sg.mid
      2	wlawātai
      3	wlawāte

      • wawlāwau “having restrained oneself” part.pret1

        	sg.m
        nom	wawlāwau

    • wlāwā- “to control, restrain oneself” gv.imp1

      	pl.mid
      2	pulāwat

Occurrences

wawlāwau

1	IOL Toch 70 b5	b5 /// (papāṣṣorñen)tane anaiśai	wawlāwau	• śīlata(s) /// b6
2	PK NS 28 a4	; (pa)lskosa ; ṣek	(wa)wlāwau	; ṣp{†ä} anai(śai) ;
3	THT 8 b7	; ṣ(e)k imassu ;	wawlāwau	; po ṣkas yälloṃ
4	THT 26 a7	a7 /// ṣ(e)k indrinta	wawlāwau	4 wlaiśke /// a8
5	THT 31 a4	papāsṣorñen;tane no ; anaiśai	wawlāwau	: aiśaumyi ceu ;
6	THT 320 b7	/// b7 /// kärtse	wawlāwau	i ///

wawlawau

1

THT 588 b3

piśne po ; añmsa

wawlaw(au)

b4 /// /// cmetsiśco