aśnumäṣ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “having eyes, seeing”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	eśanetstse; eśanetstse
Lexeme variants:	aśnumäṣ
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	aśnum		aśnumäṣ
voc
acc	aśnumänt
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
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

aśnumäṣ

1	A 147 a2	tämne täm yiñc ;	aśnumäṣ	; nasmsäṣ masksäa3ṣ ;
2	A 315 and 316 b3	(nu) (sne) (ptsäk) ;	(a)śnumäṣ	; wraske(yo) ; (wso)b4k
3	YQ II.3 b4	wätkatsi mā käryatsumäṣ ākrä	aśnumäṣ	śla b5 ///
4	YQ II.6 a2	kälymeyäṣ kumpa kump ākrä	aśnua3(mäṣ)	/// träṅkiñc ॥ mandodharinaṃ

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.