käṣṣinā
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “teacher” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | käṣṣi |
| Lexeme variants: | käṣṣinā |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | perlative |
| Gender: | masculine |
| Inflection class: | |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -ṃ |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
|---|---|---|---|
| nom | käṣṣi | käṣṣiñ | |
| voc | |||
| acc | käṣṣiṃ | käṣṣis | |
| gen | käṣṣiyāp, käṣyāp-äkk | käṣṣiśśi, käṣṣiśśi-k | |
| loc | käṣṣinaṃ | ||
| comit | |||
| inst | käṣṣinyo | ||
| abl | käṣṣinäṣ, käṣṣinac | käṣṣisäṣ | |
| perl | käṣṣinā | ||
| all | |||
| caus |
Lexeme family
- käṣṣi “teacher”
m
sg pl nom käṣṣi käṣṣiñ acc käṣṣiṃ käṣṣis gen käṣṣiyāp, käṣyāp-äkk käṣṣiśśi, käṣṣiśśi-k loc käṣṣinaṃ inst käṣṣinyo abl käṣṣinäṣ, käṣṣinac käṣṣisäṣ perl käṣṣinā
Occurrences
käṣṣinā
| 1 | A 7 b1 | nu kakätwu tākā yaṃtrācāreṃ | käṣṣinā | ote täpreṃ eṅklis tampewātsune |
| 2 | A 8 a1 | säs wram nu yaṃtrācāreṃ | käṣṣinā | ṣñi amokaṃ o(pä)a2śśune nṣac |
| 3 | A 99 b6 | ne nan(d)e nātäk pättāñkät | käṣṣinā | sä |
| 4 | A 312 b6 | spa(rcw)māṃ kum{p→ṣ}ār ; ptāñkät | käṣṣi;nā | kārmeṃ : ñäktañ napeñi |
| 5 | YQ II.9 a6 | yärm kinnareñ gandharviñ ptāñkät | käṣṣinā | yärśār märkampal klyossi a7 |
| 6 | YQ III.9 b2 | śuddhodaṃ lāb2(nt) /// ptāñkät | käṣṣinā | ākāśś oki sne mem |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
