asaṃkheṣi

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “an incalculable period, a mega-era”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	asaṃkheṣi
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine; feminine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	asaṃkheṣi	asaṃkheṣi
voc
acc	asaṃkheṣiṃ			asaṃkheṣinās
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• asaṃkhe “an incalculable period, a mega-era” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	asaṃkhye	asaṃkheñ, esaṃkhes
  acc	asaṃkhye	asaṃkhes, esaṃkhes
  loc		asaṃkhesaṃ
  inst		asaṃkhesyo

  • asaṃkheṣi “an incalculable period, a mega-era”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.f
    nom	asaṃkheṣi	asaṃkheṣi
    acc	asaṃkheṣiṃ		asaṃkheṣinās

Occurrences

asaṃkheṣi

1	A 18 a1	āklye yāmtsāt sām nu	asaṃkheṣi	praṣt ṣokyo päa2rkri kyalte
2	A 305 b6	kä b6 /// tri	asaṃkheṣi	ṣtare śla oko ṣeṣ-ñi
3	YQ II.14 a4	śāsnaṃ waṣtäṣ läñcluneyo tri	asaṃkheṣi	ṣtare ypic yal ci

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.