Q. cesta-² v. (weak-verb) “to ask” (Category: to Ask, Request)

Q. cesta-², v. (weak-verb) “to ask” (Category: to Ask, Request)

Q. cesta-¹ “to seek, search for”

References ✧ PE22/138-139

Inflections

kestallen	aorist 2nd-sg with-1st-sg-object	“you ask me”	✧ PE22/138
kestuvallen	future 2nd-sg with-1st-sg-object		✧ PE22/138
kestanellen	past 2nd-sg with-1st-sg-object	“you had asked me!”	✧ PE22/139

Element In

• Q. (ai)que kestanellen, (ai) tullenye “if you had asked me, I should have come” ✧ PE22/139
• Q. aite[?] kestallen “now, suppose, you ask me” ✧ PE22/139
• Q. aite[?] kestuvallen, tuluvanye “now supposing you asked me, a thing unlikely {or ridiculous} to suppose...” ✧ PE22/138
• Q. au kestanellen! “if only you had asked me!” ✧ PE22/139
• Q. [?it/itē] kestallen, tuluvanye “if you ask me, I shall come” ✧ PE22/138

Derivations

• < √KETH “enquire of, question, examine something”

ᴹQ. kesta- v. (weak-verb) “to ask” (Category: to Ask, Request)

References ✧ PE22/97, 118, 120-122

Inflections

kestan	aorist with-1st-sg-object	“asks me”	✧ PE22/97
kestan	aorist with-1st-sg-object	“asked me”	✧ PE22/120
kestuvan	future with-1st-sg-object	“asks me”	✧ PE22/97; PE22/120
kestane	past	“asked”	✧ PE22/118
kestanen	past with-1st-sg-object	“asked me”	✧ PE22/121
kestanen	past with-1st-sg-object		✧ PE22/122
kestanelyanen	pluperfect with-1st-sg-object	“he (had) asked me”	✧ PE22/121
kestanelyanen	pluperfect with-1st-sg-object		✧ PE22/122

Element In

• ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanelyanen (ela), en ni·túlie ✧ PE22/122
• ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanelyanen (ela), en ni·tuluváne ✧ PE22/122
• ᴹQ. aiqe e·kestanen ela en ni túlie/karnet “if he had asked me (he did not), I should have come/made it” ✧ PE22/121
• ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanen (ela), en ni·tuluváne ✧ PE22/122
• ᴹQ. aiqe e kestanen (ela), en ni·utúliévane ✧ PE22/122
• ᴹQ. aiqe e·kestanen, en(ai) ni·túlie/karnet “if he had asked me, I should have come/made it” ✧ PE22/121
• ᴹQ. aiqe e·kestuvan, ni·tuluva “If he asked me/were to ask me, I should come” ✧ PE22/120
• ᴹQ. aiqe kestuvan ni·tuluva “If he asked me/were he to ask, I should come” ✧ PE22/97
• ᴹQ. auve e·kestanen, au ni·túlie “if he had asked me, I might have come” ✧ PE22/121
• ᴹQ. auve e·kestanen (ela!) “would he have asked me!” ✧ PE22/121
• ᴹQ. e·kestane ataretta karithe “he asked his father to do it” ✧ PE22/118
• ᴹQ. illume e·kestanen/kestanelyanen, ni·tulle “when/if he (had) asked me, I came” ✧ PE22/121
• ᴹQ. qe e·kestan/kestuvan ni·tuluva “if he asks me, I shall come” ✧ PE22/97
• ᴹQ. qe e·kestanen, ni·tulle “if he asked me I came” ✧ PE22/121
• ᴹQ. qe e·kestan, ni·tuluva “if he asks me, I shall come” ✧ PE22/120
• ᴹQ. qe e·kestuvan, ni·tuluva “when he asks me, I shall come; if on some future occasion he asks me, then on that occasion I shall come” ✧ PE22/120

Derivations

• < √KETH “enquire of, question, examine something”