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asaṃkhye

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Meaning:	“an incalculable period, a mega-era”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	asaṃkhyai
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. asaṃkhyeya-
Lexeme variants:	asaṃkhye; asaṃkhe
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	asaṃkhye	asaṃkheñ, esaṃkhes
voc
acc	asaṃkhye	asaṃkhes, esaṃkhes
gen
loc		asaṃkhesaṃ
comit
inst		asaṃkhesyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• asaṃkhe n

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

  • asaṃkheṣi

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

Commentary

Translation by Carling et al. 2009: an incalculable period, a mega-era

Occurrences

asaṃkhe

1	A 18 a2	säkskiñciṃ gaṇitasthānaṃ mahākalpañ śmeñc tām praṣṭaṃ sas	asaṃkhe	mäskatär
2	A 323 b2	/// b2– – – – – cäṃ	asaṃ(kh)e	/// b3– – – – ·

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.