āṣtri

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “clear, pure, clean”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	astare
Lexeme variants:	āṣtri
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	feminine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	āṣtär	āṣtri	āṣṭre	āṣtraṃ
voc
acc	āṣträṃ	āṣtäryāṃ		āṣtraṃ
gen	āṣtäryāp
loc
comit
inst	āṣträṃnyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• āṣtär “clear, pure, clean”

  	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	āṣtär	āṣtri	āṣṭre	āṣtraṃ
  acc	āṣträṃ	āṣtäryāṃ		āṣtraṃ
  gen	āṣtäryāp
  inst	āṣträṃnyo

  • āṣtrone “pureness” n

    	sg	pl
    nom	āṣtrone	āṣtroneyntu
    acc	āṣtrone

Occurrences

āṣtri

1	A 147 a2	; lukśanuṃts ; lyāki	āṣtri	; sam ytār tāṣ
2	A 147 a3	ks· ñc : ly(ā)k(i)	āṣtri	; lukśanuts ; ytārr

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.