ṣāmnune

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “monkhood”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	ṣāmnune
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ṣāmnune
voc
acc	ṣāmnune
gen	ṣāmnuneyis
loc
comit
inst
abl	ṣāmnuneyäṣ
perl
all	ṣāmnuneyac
caus

Lexeme family

• ṣāmaṃ “monk” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	ṣāmaṃ	ṣāmnāñ
  acc	ṣāmaṃ	ṣāmnās
  gen	ṣāmne	ṣāmnāśśi
  loc	ṣāmnaṃ
  abl		ṣāmnāsäṣ
  perl	ṣāmnāk	ṣāmnāsā
  all		ṣāmnāsac

  • ṣāmañi “of a monk”

    	sg.m
    nom	ṣāmañi
    acc	ṣāmañiṃ, ṣāmañi
    gen	ṣāmañiyap

    • ṣāmnune “monkhood” n

      	sg
      nom	ṣāmnune
      acc	ṣāmnune
      gen	ṣāmnuneyis
      abl	ṣāmnuneyäṣ
      all	ṣāmnuneyac

      • ṣāmnuneṣi “monkhood”

        	sg.m
        acc	ṣāmnuneṣiṃ

Occurrences

ṣāmnune

1	A 90 b5	pik(ā)r kärsātär naṣ-äṃ te	ṣāmnune	b6 /// tāṣ nāśi
2	A 97 a1	s· – – – – – cwäṣ pkänt	ṣāmnune	a2 /// ñ· kuyalte
3	A 109 b1	wañy ontaṃ : saṃkrām	ṣāmnune	ri – – b2 ///
4	A 114 a1	kuyall aśśi mäccek ;	ṣāmnune	mā ; a –
5	A 153 a5	weyeṃ täṣ ; nandes	ṣāmnune	: mäntäm risāt sukuntu
6	A 190 a3	ānāntā /// a3 ṅkiñc	ṣāmnune	/// a4 aptsarntu käl·ā
7	A 197 b1	/// b1 – – – – kar	ṣ(ā)mnun(e)	/// b2 – – ākṣñam-ci
8	A 212 b4	(w)aṣtäṣ läṃtseñc brāmnune raryuräṣ	ṣāmnune	eṃtssanträ /// b5 ///
9	A 266 a4	läntäṣ /// a4 yo	ṣāmnune	kälpo märkampal ka·l· ///
10	YQ II.4 b2	waṣtäṣ läntseñc brāmnune raryuräṣ	ṣāmnune	b3 (eṃtssanträ) (äntā)
11	YQ II.13 a7	kāswoneytu kropänträ ākā särki	ṣāmnune	weṣ etsuräṣ āa8(rāntiśparäṃ) ///
12	YQ II.13 a8	kāswoneytu kropänträ ākā särki	ṣāmnune	etsuräṣ prattikaputtiśparäṃ kälpnānträ b1

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.