yāto-ñ

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Meaning:	“to be (cap)able”
Word class:	verb
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	yātā-
Lexeme variants:	yāto-ñ; yāto_i-ñ; yātoy-ñ

Person:	third
Number:	singular
Tense/Mood:	optative
Pronoun suffix:	first
Root character:	a-character
Internal root vowel:	vowel-full
Stem:	subjunctive
Stem class:	5
Valency:	intransitive
Voice:	active

Paradigm

	sg.act	pl.act	du.act	sg.mid	pl.mid	du.mid
1
2
3	yāto-ñ, yātaṃ, yātaṃ-c	yātoye-ñ, yātoyeṃ-ś, yatäṃ

Lexeme family

yātā-

yātā- “to be (cap)able” gv
- yātā- “to be (cap)able” gv.prs4
  
  sg.mid pl.mid
  
  3 yotitär, yototär yotontär
- yātā- “to be (cap)able” gv.subj5
  
  sg.act pl.act
  
  3 yāto-ñ, yātaṃ, yātaṃ-c yātoye-ñ, yātoyeṃ-ś, yatäṃ
  - yātalyñe “ability” abstr.m.subj5
    
    sg
    
    nom yātalyñe
    
    acc yātalyñe
  - yātalle “being (cap)able” part.subj5
    
    sg.m
    
    nom yātalle
  - yātatsi “to be (cap)able” inf.n.subj5
    
    sg
    
    nom yātatsi
    
    acc yātatsi
    
    all yātatsiśc
- yātā- “to be (cap)able” gv.pret1
  
  sg.act
  
  3 yatā-ne
  - yayātau “having been capable” part.pret1
    
    sg.m pl.m
    
    nom yayātaṣ, yayātau yayātaṣ
    
    acc yayātaṣ yayātāṣäṃ, yayātaṣ

yāt- “to enable, tame” kaus

yāt- “to enable, tame” kaus.subj9b

sg.act sg.mid

1 yātäṣṣimar

3 yātäṣṣi yātäṣṣītär, yātäṣṣitär-ñ
- yātässi “to enable, tame” inf.n.subj9b
  
  sg
  
  nom yātässi
  
  acc yātässi
yāt- “to enable, tame” kaus.pret4

sg.mid

2 yātäṣṣatai

3 yātäṣṣāte
- yayātäṣṣu “to enable, tame” part.pret4
  
  sg.m
  
  nom yayātäṣṣu

yāt- “to enable, tame” kaus.prs9b

yātäṣṣeñca “enabling, taming” ptcp.prs9b

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
nom	yātäṣṣeñca	yātäṣṣeñca	yātäṣṣeñcañ	yātäṣṣeñcañ
acc	yātäṣṣeñcai, yatäṣṣeñcai	yātäṣṣeñcai, yatäṣṣeñcai
all	yātäṣṣeñcaiścä	yātäṣṣeñcaiścä

yāt- “to tame” agv
- yāt- “to tame” agv.prs8
  
  sg.act
  
  3 yātṣäṃ
- yāt- “to tame” agv.pret3
  
  sg.act
  
  1 yātwa

Occurrences

yāto-ñ

1	IOL Toch 269 a4	a4 /// śtarcesa kälṣamñe	yāto-ñ	piṅcesa tsirau(ñe) /// a5
2	IOL Toch 269 a5	/// a5 /// (a)śubh	yāto-ñ	o(ktañc)e(sa) ānāpāna(smṛti) /// b1

yātoy-ñ

1

IOL Toch 269 a3

ṣṣ· k· – – āyor

/// a4 /// śtarcesa