esäṃ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “shoulder”; “(pl.) aggregate”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	āntse
Lexeme variants:	esäṃ
Number:	dual
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	es	esañ	esäṃ
voc
acc	es	esas	esäṃ
gen
loc			esnaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl	esā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• es “shoulder” “(pl.) aggregate” m

  	sg	pl	du
  nom	es	esañ	esäṃ
  acc	es	esas	esäṃ
  loc			esnaṃ
  perl	esā

  • esneṃ “shoulder” “(pl.) aggregate”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	esneṃ	esneṃ

  • esnum “shoulder” “(pl.) aggregate”

    	sg.m
    nom	esnum

Occurrences

esäṃ

1	A 292 a2	a2 ///	(e)säṃ	• śäk ṣpätpi(nt) (lakṣaṃ)
2	A 340 a5	litkoṣṣ oki ; āmpy	esäṃ	ṣā;tre nāntsūṣ ; klār
3	A 378 a5	5σ /// ; kākropuṣ	esäṃ	; ñäkci(ṃ) wsāṣiṃ ;