āñmes

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “self”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	āñme
Lexeme variants:	āñmes; āymes; ālymes
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	āñcäm
voc
acc	āñcäm
gen	āñmes
loc	āñmaṃ
comit	āñmaśśäl, āñmaśl-äkk
inst
abl	āñmäṣ
perl	āñmā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• āñcäm “self”

  	sg
  nom	āñcäm
  acc	āñcäm
  gen	āñmes
  loc	āñmaṃ
  comit	āñmaśśäl, āñmaśl-äkk
  abl	āñmäṣ
  perl	āñmā

  • āñmaṣi “prtng. to the self”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	āñmaṣi	āñmaṣi

  • āñmatsum “having a self”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	āñmatsum
    gen	āñmatsumäntāp
    perl		āñmatsumäñcsā

Occurrences

āymes

1	A 212 a6	a6 /// ṣ ṣñi	āymes	ṣakk atsek śralune pälkoräṣ
2	A 312 b8	nāntsu ; mā säm	āymes	; kälyme kärsāt ;
3	A 313 b2	(tmäṣ) (āṣā)nik ānaṃnd ṣñi	āymes	puttiśparnäṣ lotklu(ne) (opyā)b3c kloräṣ

āñmes

1	A 10 b2	; nkaluneyac ; ṣñi	āñmes	{:} {1} ॥ täm
2	A 65 a3	mäskatär • sas ṣñi	āñmes	skeysā wälläṣtär • wät
3	A 149 b2	· nu ñuk tīmän	āñmes	ytāṣīmār – – – – – – – – – r mänt
4	THT 1564 b2	b2 /// ·ā ṣñi	āñmes	ā – /// b3
5	YQ II.4 a5	(cesäm) (śkaṃ) (manarkāsä)ṣ ṣñi	āñmes	ṣakk atsek śralune pälkoräṣ

ālymes

1	A 359 a8	t(pyā) a8 m(ts)ār tu	ālymes	। vīryaṃ saṃśraya paṇḍitāṃ
2	A 430 a6	/// a6 /// ṣñi	ālymes	św(ā)si prä·āṃ /// a7
3	YQ I.3 a8	sne ets : m=	ālymes	b1 15σ ///

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.