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śāwe

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Meaning:	“big; immense; horrible”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	orotstse
Lexeme variants:	śāwe
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	tsopats	tsopatsi	śāwe	śāwaṃ
voc
acc	tsopatsäṃ	tsoptsāṃ	śāwes
gen	tsoptsāp
loc			śāwesaṃ
comit
inst				śāwaṃnyo
abl			śāwesäṣ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• tsopats

  	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	tsopats	tsopatsi	śāwe	śāwaṃ
  acc	tsopatsäṃ	tsoptsāṃ	śāwes
  gen	tsoptsāp
  loc			śāwesaṃ
  inst				śāwaṃnyo
  abl			śāwesäṣ

  • tsoptsune n

    	sg
    perl	tsoptsuneyā

Commentary

The form is the suppletive plural of tsopats. In some contexts such as A 41: b 2 the meaning of this form is close to the one the prefixed adjective TA āśāwe 'rough, horrible'.

Occurrences

śāwe

1	A 41 a1	a1tpär	śāwe	: kārāśänw oki sä·i
2	A 41 b2		śāwe	pretāñ ///
3	A 44 b4	(mä)b4nwā ṣulaññ oki	śā(we)	///
4	A 49 a1	; ṣom-cmolṣy ats ;	śāwe	moki
5	A 49 b6	kupre pat nu	(śāw)e	śarirumäṣ wyāri neñc
6	A 63 b2	wrasaśśi krañcäṃ swārtwlune yomuṣ pältskumäṣ	śāwe	ñäktab3(ñ) (asurāñ) yakṣeñi tāśśi
7	A 312 a3	tmäṣ prasenajinäṣṣ aci	śāwe	lāṃś bimba(sārä)a4ṣṣ aci wāskāñ
8	A 312 b5	ñañwārr oki ;	śāwe	kumci ;
9	A 334 a4	/// a4näṣṣ aci	śāwe	nākeñi l· – – ṣt«†ä»