kaś

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “count, number”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	keś
Lexeme variants:	kaś; kaśä
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kaś	kaśañ
voc
acc	kaś
gen
loc	kaśaṃ
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kaś “count, number”

  	sg	pl
  nom	kaś	kaśañ
  acc	kaś
  loc	kaśaṃ

  • kaśaṣi “of numbers”

    	sg.m
    nom	kaśaṣi

  • kaśom “countable”

    	pl.f
    nom	kaśomināñ

Occurrences

kaś

1	A 19 b2	oko ; kapśañi sne	kaś	nārāyaṃ-;atraśśi prant ; tampeyntu
2	A 51 a1	a1 /// sn(e)	kaś	lotksā yśalmas ṣu(r)m(aṣ) klopant
3	A 55 b5	10σ /// (śla)	(ka)ś	tālune kāruṇik wrasom tsopatsäṃ
4	A 56 b5	: b5 /// (bodhisa)tveṃ	kaś	tāluneyo mācri klopyo penu
5	A 62 b1	; napeṃsaṃ : sne	kaś	suku(ntu) ; – – 10σ
6	A 70 a1	/// ṣñi śralune mā	kaś	toräṣ ākär lyāsmāṃ patsac
7	A 70 a3	särki ymāṃ kārāśaṃ ṣtare	kaś	wālyi • mā penu
8	A 74 a3	a3 /// sattu mā	kaś	wāworäṣ sākät lyäm ॥
9	A 90 a6	5σ 15σ /// yärm	kaś	: 2 ॥ taṃne
10	A 214 b1	wärce praṣt penu mā	kaś	toräṣ • w· ///
11	A 222 a5	(sākrone) (:) (100-5) (sne)	(kaś)	(ske) ypā ; pättāṃñkät
12	A 224 b7	: vaineṣinäs ṣurmaṣi sne	kaś	klo ///
13	A 239 a3	sākrone : 100-5 sne	kaś	ske ypā ; pättāṃñkät
14	A 254 a8	memaṣ kātkmāṃ (nā)a8(ntsuṣ) (sne)	(kaś)	(ṣiyak) (kalka)r{†ä} ॥ pullenaṃ
15	A 267 a5	a5 /// pläk kälymeyā	kaś	tā /// a6 ///
16	A 270 b5	ṣakk a(ts) metrak sne	kaś	wältsantuyo āb6(kläṣlyes) /// (ptā)ñktäṣ
17	A 287 and 259 a2	·n· tä(m) (kaklyuṣuräṣ) (sne)	(kaś)	(wrasañ) (ārāntiśpa)räṃ kälpnānträ •
18	A 312 a7	käṣṣi(ñ) (ālyek) (śkaṃ) (sne)	(kaś)	a8 ypeṣiñi wrasañ yeñc
19	A 320 b7	(ṣurmaṣ) (sne) yärm sne	kaś	wrasañ /// b8 ///
20	A 324 b2	/// b2 /// mā	kaś	tāse ālak{t→n}ā : kri
21	A 343 a2	(pa)t ñi enaṣlune mā	(kaś)	(to)räṣ{†ä} el essi-k ats{†ä}
22	A 343 b1	ypey{e→i}s tālorñe mā śk{e→aṃ}	ka(ś)	(toräṣ) /// (ca)b2m{†ä} weñlune(yäṣ)
23	A 347 a1	: 6 tṣ-äk śkaṃ	kaś	tāṣäl ; mā säm
24	A 377 a4	; praṅk(a-)praṅk : sne	kaś	māk wäknā ; paryārintu
25	A 392 a6	ytār nervāṃ /// (sa)a6dṛśa	kaś	cid bhava(ti) /// b1
26	YQ I.2 a3	; eṣ tmis mem	kaś	; yärm mā naṣ
27	YQ II.1 b4	(wärce) (praṣt) (penu) (mā)	kaś	toräṣ : wkäṃ wäknā
28	YQ II.6 b3	3σ /// nyo ;	kaś	toräṣ ; märkampal yal
29	YQ III.9 b8	wawurā sne mem sne	kaś	cmoläntwaṃ o (ko)

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.