ñemintu

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Meaning:	“jewel, precious stone”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	naumiye
Lexeme variants:	ñemintu
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-i
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-i
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-intu

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ñemi	ñemintu
voc
acc	ñemi	ñemintu
gen	ñemyis	ñemiṃtwis
loc	ñemyaṃ
comit		ñemintwaśśäl
inst	ñemyo	ñemintuyo
abl
perl
all	ñemiyac
caus

Lexeme family

• ñemi “jewel, precious stone” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	ñemi	ñemintu
  acc	ñemi	ñemintu
  gen	ñemyis	ñemiṃtwis
  loc	ñemyaṃ
  comit		ñemintwaśśäl
  inst	ñemyo	ñemintuyo
  all	ñemiyac

Occurrences

ñemintu

1	A 43 and 52 a6	; psāmār pkāmāa6r ;	ñem(i)ntu	tmäṣ marśkaṃ tām wmār
2	A 64 b2	ne cami : ṣpät	ñemintu	; wälts seb3(wās) ;
3	A 77 b2	tm-äk brahmadatte wäl ·itābhās	ñemintu	– – – – – – – – – i b3 ///
4	A 128 and 130 a4	(mṣapa)ntinäs sewās • ṣpät	ñemintu	śtwar dvipäntwā nātkune risā(t)
5	A 266 b3	śaṅkhe cakravartti wäl ṣpät	ñemintu	raryūräṣ /// b4 ntäṣ
6	A 268 b5	ṣ· tñi : śla	ñemintu	; – – b6 10σ
7	A 294 a7	/// mpeyaṃ : tri	ñemintu	aryu ṣ·e /// a8
8	A 355 a2	lānt maṅkal ; ṣpät	ñ(e)mintu	; maṅkal n-äṃ ;
9	A 370 b4	ne ñaktañ naivāsikāñ tri	ñemintu	pās(s)i wräpoṣ • bramñät
10	A 405 b4	śeṣṣe ; ypic pat	ñemintu	; wsokoneyo ; el
11	THT 2033 b2	yā b2 /// ntu	ñemintu	•
12	YQ I.9 a3	säs waṣt lamaṣ ṣpät	ñemintu	a4 /// (ku)pr(e)