ñareṣi

Cite this page as:	"ñareṣi". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_ñareṣi (accessed 14 Nov. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “pertaining to hell”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	nraiṣṣe
Lexeme variants:	ñareṣi
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine; feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-i
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-i
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ñi

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	ñareṣi	ñareṣi	ñareṣiñi
voc
acc	ñareṣiṃ, ñareṣinäṃ, ñareṣi	ñareṣi	ñareṣinäs	ñareṣṣās, ñareṣinās
gen			ñareṣinäśśi
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ñare “hell” “sin” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	ñare	ñareyntu
  acc	ñare
  loc	ñareyaṃ	ñareyäṃtwaṃ
  abl		ñareyäntwäṣ

  • ñare-pālik “guardian of hell” m

    	sg	pl
    nom	ñare-pālik	ñare-pālikāñ
    acc	ñare-pālik

  • ñareṣi “pertaining to hell”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
    nom	ñareṣi	ñareṣi	ñareṣiñi
    acc	ñareṣiṃ, ñareṣinäṃ, ñareṣi	ñareṣi	ñareṣinäs	ñareṣṣās, ñareṣinās
    gen			ñareṣinäśśi

  • prattika-ñare “individual hell” n

    	sg	pl
    nom	prattika-ñare
    acc	prattika-ñare
    loc	prattika-ñareyaṃ	prattika-ñareyntwaṃ

Occurrences

ñareṣi

1

A 298 a8

lātäṅ(k)ā /// a8 klop

ñareṣi

: 1 ॥ t··

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.