ñareyäṃtwaṃ

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Meaning:	“hell”; “sin”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	nrai
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. Skt. niraya- "hell"; Skt. pāpa- "sin"
Lexeme variants:	ñareyäṃtwaṃ; ñareytwäṃ; ñareytwaṃ; ñarentwaṃ; ñareyntwaṃ; ñareyäntwaṃ
Number:	plural
Case:	locative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ntu

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ñare	ñareyntu
voc
acc	ñare
gen
loc	ñareyaṃ	ñareyäṃtwaṃ
comit
inst
abl		ñareyäntwäṣ
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

ñarentwaṃ

1	A 226 a6	; yāmūräṣ 8σ 4σ	(ñare)a7nt(wa)ṃ	; tamänt tosäṃ ;
2	A 229 b1	; – – – ne ;	ñarentwaṃ	; kupār wrasas :

ñareytwäṃ

1

A 314 a5

a5 /// ; (puk)

ñareytwäṃ

; o(ki) {ṣ→p}at ;

ñareyäṃtwaṃ

1	A 254 a1	nṣac wak tärnāmāṃ :	ñar(eyäṃtwaṃ)	/// 4 ॥ tmäṣ
2	A 313 b2	r(i){n→t}i(trä) (:) (asaṃ)b2khesaṃ ;	ñareyäṃtwaṃ	; sälpiṣṣäk ats :
3	A 320 a4	/// a4 /// (omlaṃ)	(ñareyäṃtwaṃ)	(krośśās) (swāñce)nās tarkar •
4	A 320 a4	(swāñce)nās tarkar • krośśās	ñarey(äṃ)twaṃ	– (o)mlaṃ swāñcenās tark(ar)
5	A 320 b3	17σ b3 2σ ///	ñareyäṃtwaṃ	; klyānt neṣ ña(re-pā)lkāñ

ñareytwaṃ

1	A 305 b4	śkaṃ : tämne-k ālkont	ñareytwaṃ	lwā pre b5 ///
2	A 307 b5	kāswac skāb5(yluneyntu) /// ·	ñareytwaṃ	prattika-ñareyaṃ lwākaṃ pretāsaṃ śtwar

ñareyntwaṃ

1	A 28 b1	tsā /// b1	ñareyntwaṃ	: 1 ॥ pärskont
2	A 71 b4	yiñc tmäṣ kupāraṃ ;	ñareyntwaṃ	: näṣ-wäknumänt ; sne
3	A 151 b4	yaṣ ; säm yäṣ	ñareyntwaṃ	; kupre ne cmatär
4	A 264 a4	kās ār{p→ṣ}lāsaṃ raurāp (ṣ)olār	ñareyntwaṃ	tämnässi ṣurm nāṃtsu ॥