kaṣ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “fathom, arm span”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	keṣe
Lexeme variants:	kaṣ
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	kaṣ
voc
acc	kaṣ	kaṣas
gen
loc
comit
inst	kaṣyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kaṣ “fathom, arm span” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	kaṣ
  acc	kaṣ	kaṣas
  inst	kaṣyo

Occurrences

kaṣ

1	A 22 a5	yāmu ; koṃ-ñkätt oki	kaṣ	; swāñcenāsyo ; wo
2	A 60 b4	8σ ; (swā)ñcenāsyo ;	kaṣ	worpunt ; kāswoneyo ;
3	A 144 and THT 2485 b2	lānt sew(ā)ññ āmpi :	kaṣ	ka b3 8σ
4	A 217 b5	; lukäśnū worpū ;	kaṣ	swāñcenyo ; sūk lkātsi
5	A 248 a1	arämpāt ; lukśanuntsāṃ ;	kaṣ	swāñcenyo ; worpūs skam
6	A 314 a8	: 2 wsā yokāṃ	kaṣ	; swāñcenyo ; (w)orp(u)
7	A 315 and 316 a6	/// syo ñañitku o(ki)	(kaṣ)	(swāñcenāsyo) worpu ñemiṣi(nāṃ) (o)a7ki
8	THT 1658.a a1	a1 ///	kaṣ	ma /// b1 ///

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.