kāruṇis

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “pity, mercy”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	karuṃ
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. kāruṇa-
Lexeme variants:	kāruṇis; kārunis
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kāruṃ
voc
acc	kāruṃ
gen	kāruṇis
loc
comit	kāruṇaśśäl
inst	kāruṃyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kāruṃ “pity, mercy” m

  	sg
  nom	kāruṃ
  acc	kāruṃ
  gen	kāruṇis
  comit	kāruṇaśśäl
  inst	kāruṃyo

  • kāruṃṣi “of pity”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    acc	kāruṃṣiṃ, kāruṃṣinäṃ	kāruṃṣinäs

  • kāruṇik “merciful, compassionate” “(n.) the compassionate one”

Occurrences

kāruṇis

1

A 69 a4

ṣñi ā(ñ)m(a) ṣu-kk ats

kāruṇis

tampewātsuneyā mäccaknā sne täkwāṣluneyum

kārunis

1

A 69 b5

nu mā yātal •

kārunis

tampewātsuneyā täm ne b6

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.