gandhārveśśi

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “Gandharva”; a celestial musician
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	gandharve
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. gandharva-
Lexeme variants:	gandhārveśśi
Number:	plural
Case:	genitive
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom
voc
acc
gen		gandhārveśśi
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl	gandharvā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• gandharv “Gandharva” a celestial musician m

  	sg	pl
  gen		gandhārveśśi
  perl	gandharvā

  • gandharveṃ “Gandharva” a celestial musician

    	pl.m
    nom	gandharveñi

Occurrences

gandhārveśśi

1	A 214 b5	asurās nāgās yakṣāśśi kinna(res)	(gandhārveśśi)	(yoṣ) (ymāṃ) (wsālwäṣ) ///
2	YQ II.1 b8	(asurās) (nāgās) (yakṣāśśi) (kin)n(a)res	gandhārveśśi	yoṣ ymāṃ wsālwäṣ

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.