empele

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “dreadful, formidable”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	empele
Lexeme variants:	empele
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ṃ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ñ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	empele		empeleñ
voc
acc	empeleṃ		empeles	empelyās
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• empele “dreadful, formidable”

  	sg.m	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	empele	empeleñ
  acc	empeleṃ	empeles	empelyās

  • empelune “formidableness, horror” n

    	sg
    nom	empelune
    acc	empelune
    abl	empeluneyäṣ

Occurrences

empele

1	A 51 a6	/// senik ; św	empele	sne kāruṃ : arä…
2	A 137 b4	/// b4 /// ṣi	empele	lyalypu tmā /// b5
3	A 137 b5	b5 /// mā wṣeññ=	empele	/// b6 /// ṣ{†ä}
4	A 340 b3	tā(k) (tsopa)ts ; kapśño	empele	: entsāt oṅkaṃ ;
5	A 340 b6	b6 (te) 7σ ///	(e)mpele	: säm näṣ tām

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.