dhanis

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “(n.masc.) rich person”; “(adj.) possessing wealth”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. dhanin-
Lexeme variants:	dhanis
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	dhani		dhaniñ
voc
acc			dhanis
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• dhani “(n.masc.) rich person” “(adj.) possessing wealth”

  	sg.m	pl.m
  nom	dhani	dhaniñ
  acc		dhanis

Occurrences

dhanis

1	A 15 b3	prajñavāṃ penu śāwes śāwes	dhanis	śriṣṭhis knānmune(yo) b4 (k)ātkäsmāṃ
2	A 80 b4	ākāl ṣeṣ-äṃ tmäṣ bhādrā	dhani(s)	śr·ṣṭhis āmāśā b5 ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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