aśäṃ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “eye”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	ek
Lexeme variants:	aśäṃ; aśäṃn
Number:	dual
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ak		aśäṃ
voc
acc	ak		aśäṃ
gen	akis		aśnis
loc			aśnaṃ
comit
inst	akyo		aśänyo
abl			aśnäṣ
perl
all	akac
caus

Lexeme family

• ak “eye” n

  	sg	du
  nom	ak	aśäṃ
  acc	ak	aśäṃ
  gen	akis	aśnis
  loc		aśnaṃ
  inst	akyo	aśänyo
  abl		aśnäṣ
  all	akac

  • aśnum “having eyes, seeing”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	aśnum	aśnumäṣ
    acc	aśnumänt

Occurrences

aśäṃ

1	A 8 a5	yre(ki) ; a5 – –	aśäṃ	tont ; yoṣmoṣ ywont
2	A 21 b2	aśänyo : śl= oko	aśäṃ	; tāke(ñ-ci) ; b3
3	A 58 b3	(ypamāṃ) /// (lke)ñc pe	aśäṃ	; krant wramäṃ ;
4	A 170 a2	a2 – – – – – nt tomm	aśäṃ	ku /// a3 –
5	A 213 a7	waśeṃ 20-8 tseṃ yokāñ	aśäṃ	20-9 kayurṣiss o(ki) pätkru
6	A 221 a1	trik pältsäk ; epsā-ñ	aśäṃ	; ākntsune : pättāñäkte
7	A 311 b6	: āy (py)ākässi ;	a(ś)äṃ	rwātsi ; klopyo krop(t)e
8	YQ II.5 a4	w(a)ś(e)ṃ 20-8 tseṃ yokāñ	aśäṃ	20-9 kayurṣis oki pätkru
9	YQ II.9 a7	puttiśparṣinäs lāñcäs āmpuk lkāluneyo	aa8(śäṃ)	/// (me)trak bodhisattu ajitenäṣṣ
10	YQ II.10 a8	/// ; (tseṃ) (yo)kāñ	aśäṃ	; brahmasvar wak ;

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.