neṣinäs

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Meaning:	“prior, previous” Carling and Pinault 2023: “earlier, before”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	nauṣaññe
Lexeme variants:	neṣinäs
Number:	plural
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

neṣinäs

1	A 214 a7	se kuyalte kaklyuṣu (ñi)	(ne)ṣ(i)näs	knānmānäñcäs käṣṣisäṣ mäskatär·· ///
2	A 270 b7	/// (wrasas) (mā) tsälpoñcäs	(n)eṣinäs	ptā{†ñä}ñktasā tsälpṣant ib8(me) (kalkaṣ-ñi)
3	A 318 and 319 a1	ce{p→ṣ} ṣome kumpa-kump klyanträ	neṣinäs	/// a2 ceṣ
4	A 449 b4	/// b4 /// ·ine	neṣinäs	///
5	YQ II.1 b3	b3	(neṣinäs)	(knānmānäñcäs) (käṣṣisäṣ) (mäskatä)r säm

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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