arthäntu

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “sense”; “meaning, goal”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	ārth
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. artha-
Lexeme variants:	arthäntu; arthantu
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	arth	arthäntu
voc
acc	arth	arthäntu
gen	arthis
loc
comit	arthaśśäl
inst
abl		arthäntwaṃ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• arth “sense” “meaning, goal” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	arth	arthäntu
  acc	arth	arthäntu
  gen	arthis
  comit	arthaśśäl
  abl		arthäntwaṃ

  • arthaṣi “sense” “meaning, goal”

    	pl.f
    acc	arthaṣinās

Occurrences

arthäntu

1	A 230 a1	/// 1σ /// ke	arthäntu	; puk āneṃśi ;
2	A 230 b4	; yomu nṣaṃ ;	arthä(ntu)	(60) /// 9σ ///

arthantu

1

YQ II.11 b6

(ti)r(th)eṣinās śāsträntwaṃ kupāraṃ māskyās

arthantu

pältsäb7(kyo) /// ākṣiññuräṣ träṅkäṣ

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.