ṣäpnant

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Meaning:	“sleep”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	ṣpane
Lexeme variants:	ṣäpnant
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating; masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ant

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ṣpäṃ	ṣäpnant
voc
acc	ṣpäṃ	ṣäpnant
gen
loc		ṣäpnasaṃ
comit	ṣpänyo
inst
abl	ṣäpnäṣ
perl	ṣäpnā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ṣpäṃ “sleep” n/m

  	sg	pl
  nom	ṣpäṃ	ṣäpnant
  acc	ṣpäṃ	ṣäpnant
  loc		ṣäpnasaṃ
  comit	ṣpänyo
  abl	ṣäpnäṣ
  perl	ṣäpnā

  • ṣäpñi “sleeping, lethargic”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	ṣäpñi	ṣäpñi

  • ṣäpno “sleepy”

    	pl.f
    nom	ṣäpnont

Occurrences

ṣäpnant

1	A 274 a6	a6 /// s päñ	ṣäpnant	pälkāt ॥ paṇḍurā ///
2	A 299 b5	·m·l wärporäṣ päñ śāwaṃ	ṣäpnant	lkāṣ täm ṣu{rma}ṣ temi