napeṃ

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “human being, mortal”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	napeṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	napeṃ	napeñi
voc
acc		napenäs
gen		napenäśśi
loc		napeṃsaṃ, napeṃsan-äk
comit		napeṃsaśśäl
inst
abl		napeṃnäṣ
perl
all		napeṃsac
caus

Lexeme family

• napeṃ “human being, mortal” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	napeṃ	napeñi
  acc		napenäs
  gen		napenäśśi
  loc		napeṃsaṃ, napeṃsan-äk
  comit		napeṃsaśśäl
  abl		napeṃnäṣ
  all		napeṃsac

Occurrences

napeṃ

1	A 10 a4	mät yal tākiṣ säs	napeṃ	daśārathes lānt se rām
2	A 46 b5	/// (pre)b5tāsäṣ : ñäktas	napeṃ	/// b6 puk ptāñäktañ
3	A 82 b3	tñi s·· b3 neyā	napeṃ	wäl : wä ///
4	A 123 b5	/// tāṣ : ñkät	napeṃ	b6 /// kär kūki
5	A 154 b3	॥ mā ñkät mā	napeṃ	; mā penu śāt
6	A 168 b5	/// (ko)lyāṇī ci puk	napeṃ	/// b6 /// āriñc
7	A 188 b2	: /// b2 ntaṃ	napeṃ	naṣt mänt pat nu
8	A 202 a4	kräntsonās aśä a4 ///	napeṃ	wrasom nu a5 ///
9	A 227-228 a4	– ; wärpnātsi :	napeṃ	– – – ; – – – – ;
10	A 299 a6	ñäktaśśi tām praṣt ;	napeṃ	ā /// 8σ a7
11	A 315 and 316 b6	mā säm saṃ ñkät	napeṃ	na(ṣ) (ke) (ne) ñäktaśśi
12	THT 1464 a4	svapna darśnaṃ ॥ ñäkt·s	napeṃ	saṃ sa saṃ ///
13	THT 2036 b2	/// b2 /// täṃ	napeṃ	– ///
14	THT 2071 a2	a2 /// – wrasañ	napeṃ	– /// b1 ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.