kāpñune

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “love”
Word class:	noun
Word subclass:	abstract
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	kāpñune
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-a

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kāpñune
voc
acc	kāpñune
gen
loc
comit
inst	kāpñuneyo
abl	kāpñuneyäṣ
perl	kāpñuneyā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kāpñe “loved, beloved” “love, devotion” “lover, beloved”

  	sg.m	pl.m
  nom	kāpñe	kāpñeñ
  acc		kāpñes
  gen	kāpñeyis	kāpñeśśi
  comit	kāpñeyaśśäl
  inst	kāpñeyo
  abl	kāpñeyäṣ

  • kāpñune “love” n

    	sg
    nom	kāpñune
    acc	kāpñune
    inst	kāpñuneyo
    abl	kāpñuneyäṣ
    perl	kāpñuneyā

Occurrences

kāpñune

1	A 5 a4	pat arämpāt tāṣ tuṅ=	kāpñune	arässi cämpäṣ pärko yatsi
2	A 9 b6	penu arämpāt wrasaśśi tuṅ=	kāpñune	(a) (räṣ)
3	A 50 a4	/// · s(e)yaśśäl sam	kāpñune	mā naṣ wrasa ///
4	A 58 a1	klyomäṣ : bhādrānaṃ tuṅk	kāpñune	pākäa2(r) (yāmuṣ) /// penu
5	A 73 b4	/// puk wramnaṃ	kāp;ñune	säm ; kupre ne
6	A 126 a2	nats· /// a2 ślone	kāpñune	säm mā ku ///
7	A 126 a5	a5 puklā snākye kälpo	kāpñune	: 1 ॥ ///
8	A 136 b4	b3 /// b4 ///	kāpñune	snāky· t· mi ///
9	A 325 a2	ṣñi santānaṃ kälko tuṅk	kāpñune	ṣe /// a3 ///
10	A 428 b1	b1 /// s· wra(ṃ)	kāpñune	/// b2 – – nārtham
11	THT 1564 a3	/// a3 /// cami	kāpñune	: yaṃ /// a4
12	YQ II.3 b5	॥ pācar mācarṣiṃ ;	kāpñune	; pukaṃ tampewāts ;

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.