neṣinäṃ

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Meaning:	“prior, previous” Carling and Pinault 2023: “earlier, before”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	nauṣaññe
Lexeme variants:	neṣinäṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-i
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-iṃ; -inäṃ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-iñi

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	neṣi		neṣiñi
voc
acc	neṣiṃ, neṣinäṃ		neṣinäs	neṣinās
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• neṣā “before”
  • neṣi “earlier, before” “prior, previous”

    	sg.m	pl.m	pl.f
    nom	neṣi	neṣiñi
    acc	neṣiṃ, neṣinäṃ	neṣinäs	neṣinās

  • neṣo “leading, being first”

    	sg.m
    nom	neṣo
    gen	neṣontāp

  • neṣontā “in the lead”
  • neṣorñeyum “having ... as prerequisite, preceded by ...” “of the past (?)”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m
    nom	neṣorñeyum	neṣorñeyumiṃ	neṣorñeyumäṣ

Occurrences

neṣinäṃ

1	A 201 a1	a1 pñ· kälpo –	neṣinä(ṃ)	tuṅk /// a2 –
2	A 270 b8	(kalkaṣ-ñi) /// (klyo)m tu	neṣinäṃ	ṣñi yāmunt pratim opyā (c)