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āyäntwaṃ

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Meaning:	“bone(s)”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	āyo
Lexeme variants:	āyäntwaṃ
Number:	plural
Case:	locative
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 m

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

  • āyäntwāṣi

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

Commentary

Translation by Carling et al. 2009: bone(s)

;

The singular has collective meaning ("bones of the skeleton"), the plural individualizing.

;

Carling et al. 2009: 42.

Occurrences

āyäntwaṃ

1

A 151 a2

॥ wiki(wepiñci)näs ṣpät koṃsaṃ

āyäntwaṃ

mäśśunt tämnäṣträṃ ॥ wiki

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.