kṣaṃsaṃ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “moment”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	kṣāṃ
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. kṣaṇa-
Lexeme variants:	kṣaṃsaṃ
Number:	plural
Case:	locative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kṣaṃ	kṣaṇañ
voc
acc	kṣaṃ
gen
loc	kṣaṇaṃ	kṣaṃsaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl	kṣaṇā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kṣaṃ “moment” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	kṣaṃ	kṣaṇañ
  acc	kṣaṃ
  loc	kṣaṇaṃ	kṣaṃsaṃ
  perl	kṣaṇā

Occurrences

kṣaṃsaṃ

1	A 305 a4	a4 /// prāptis wū	kṣaṃsaṃ	: spārtwaṣ wces wu
2	A 305 a5	ptis : śtärces wū	kṣaṃsaṃ	nuna-k rūpārupya a6 ///
3	A 305 a6	/// kāmadhāttwaṃ päñces wu	kṣaṃsaṃ	nuna-k kärṣ{t→n}āṣ ṣpä(t)·r· ///
4	A 305 a6	/// /// (ṣkä)śśes wu	kṣaṃsaṃ	yäṣ rūpārūpyadhātwaṃ a7 ///
5	A 305 a7	rūpārūpyadhātwaṃ a7 /// wu	kṣaṃsaṃ	nkäṣ oktis prāptis :
6	A 372 a2	okṣiññā-ci ; ṣiraś puk	kṣaṃsaṃ	: yeś-śi vajropama –

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.