dhātuntwaṃ

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Meaning:	“element, principle” Carling and Pinault 2023: “element, constituent, nature, disposition, sphere of the world”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	dhātu
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. dhātu-
Lexeme variants:	dhātuntwaṃ
Number:	plural
Case:	locative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom		dhātuntu
voc
acc		dhātuntu
gen	dhātwāp
loc		dhātuntwaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• dhātu “element, constituent, nature, disposition, sphere of the world” “element, principle” n

  	sg	pl
  nom		dhātuntu
  acc		dhātuntu
  gen	dhātwāp
  loc		dhātuntwaṃ

Occurrences

dhātuntwaṃ

1

A 218 b5

knāṃmune : pūk tri

dhātuntwaṃ

; pūk śkaṃ wrasaśśi

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.