napenäs

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “human being, mortal”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	napenäs; napeṃnäs
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
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

napeṃnäs

1

YQ II.7 b4

; ypeyaṃ kakmu ;

napeṃnäb5(s)

14σ /// (:) (ri)yaṃ

napenäs

1	A 142 a2	/// a2 /// s	n(a)penäs	kākätkṣuräṣ /// a3 ///
2	A 217 a5	; okñäṣ ñäktas ;	napenäs	säm ; oṅkraci :
3	A 312 a2	mrācäṣ ṣuṅkä{ṣ} swāñcenāñ ñä(ktas)	(na)a3penäs	kāksont oki (puk) śäk