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Cite this page as:"śāwe". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_śāwe (accessed 29 Nov. 2023).
 
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

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

1A 41 a1a1tpärśāwe: kārāśänw oki sä·i
2A 41 b2śāwepretāñ ///
3A 44 b4(mä)b4nwā ṣulaññ okiśā(we)///
4A 49 a1; ṣom-cmolṣy ats ;śāwemoki
5A 49 b6kupre pat nu(śāw)eśarirumäṣ wyāri neñc
6A 63 b2 wrasaśśi krañcäṃ swārtwlune yomuṣ pältskumäṣśāweñäktab3(ñ) (asurāñ) yakṣeñi tāśśi
7A 312 a3tmäṣ prasenajinäṣṣ aciśāwelāṃś bimba(sārä)a4ṣṣ aci wāskāñ
8A 312 b5ñañwārr oki ;śāwekumci ;
9A 334 a4/// a4näṣṣ aciśāwenākeñi l· – – ṣt«†ä»