lwes

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Meaning:	“animal”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	luwo
Lexeme variants:	lwes
Number:	singular
Case:	genitive
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-ā

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	lu	lwā
voc
acc	lu	lwā
gen	lwes	lwākis, lwāśśi
loc	lwaṃ	lwākaṃ
comit		lwākaśśäl
inst		lwāyo
abl		lwākäṣ
perl		lwākā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• lu “animal” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	lu	lwā
  acc	lu	lwā
  gen	lwes	lwākis, lwāśśi
  loc	lwaṃ	lwākaṃ
  comit		lwākaśśäl
  inst		lwāyo
  abl		lwākäṣ
  perl		lwākā

  • lweṃ “pertaining to the animal”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	lweṃ	lweñi
    acc	lweṃ

  • lwāṣi “of beasts”

    	pl.f
    nom	lwāṣināñ

Occurrences

lwes

1	A 377 a5	kesār śiśkäśśi ; kalaviṅk	lwe{t→s}	; ṣaṣärkusāṃ ; bram-ñäktenāṃ
2	A 408.f b2	/// yo •	lwes	·ā /// b3 ///