cmolwā

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “birth”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	camel
Lexeme variants:	cmolwā
Number:	plural
Case:	perlative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	cmol
voc
acc	cmol	cmolu
gen	cmolis	cmolwis, cmoläntwis
loc	cmolaṃ	cmolwaṃ, cmoläntwaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl		cmolwā
all	cmolac	cmoläntwac
caus

Lexeme family

• cmol “birth” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	cmol
  acc	cmol	cmolu
  gen	cmolis	cmolwis, cmoläntwis
  loc	cmolaṃ	cmolwaṃ, cmoläntwaṃ
  perl		cmolwā
  all	cmolac	cmoläntwac

  • cmol-ritām “desiring birth”

    	sg.f
    gen	cmol-ritāmine

  • cmolṣi “belonging to the birth”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	cmolṣi	cmolṣi
    acc	cmolṣiṃ	cmolṣāṃ

  • cmolwāṣi “belonging to the births”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
    nom	cmolwāṣi	cmolwāṣi		cmolwāṣināñ
    acc	cmolwāṣiṃ, cmolwāṣinäṃ, cmolwāṣinäs	cmolwāṣināṃ		cmolwāṣinās, cmolwāṣṣās
    loc			cmolwāṣiṃsaṃ

Occurrences

cmolwā

1	A 50 b5	(āṣā)nikāṃ maudgalyāyanäṃ : māk	cmolwā	/// b6 ///
2	A 68 a6	; (bo)a6dhisatvāñ ; päñ	cmolwā	: oppal kälytär ;

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.