āyäṃtwā

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “bone(s)”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	āyo
Lexeme variants:	āyäṃtwā; āyäntwā
Number:	plural
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	āy	āyäntu
voc
acc	āy	āyäntu
gen	āyis	āyäntwāśśi
loc		āyäntwaṃ
comit
inst
abl		āyäntwäṣ
perl		āyäṃtwā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• āy “bone(s)” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	āy	āyäntu
  acc	āy	āyäntu
  gen	āyis	āyäntwāśśi
  loc		āyäntwaṃ
  abl		āyäntwäṣ
  perl		āyäṃtwā

  • āyäntwāṣi “of bones”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	āyäntwāṣi	āyäntwāṣi	āyäntwāṣiñi

Occurrences

āyäṃtwā

1

A 12 a4

āleyaṃ wrä nesset yāmtsāt

āyäṃtwā

papärss ats tm-äk cem

āyäntwā

1	A 12 b1	(wrä) (ne)sset yāmtsāt cesäm	āyäntwā	eṣäk papärs tm-äk cem
2	A 403 b6	(sā)m{†ä} bhādrā oṅkälmā(ṣi) (śpa)läṣ	āy(äntwā)	/// b7 /// śnaṣiṃ

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.