neṣontā

Cite this page as:	"neṣontā". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_neṣontā (accessed 24 Mar. 2025).
Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “in the lead”
Word class:	uninflected
Word subclass:	postposition
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	neṣontā

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

neṣontā

1	A 288 b6	tmä(ṣ) (kumseñc) (klyomänt) (metrakäṃ)	(neṣontā)	(päñ) (känt) (manarkāsyo) wo{r}pu
2	A 302 b7	nipāt{†ä} – – kulapakāṃ praśāntasenäṃ	neṣontā	śäkwepi nāñ – b8
3	A 305 a8	śäk – – – – a8 ///	(n)eṣontā	śäk-ṣäk-pi tmāṃ okät wälts
4	A 345 a3	॥ tmäṣ aurabhripurveṃ ñkät	neṣontā	okät tmāṃ ñä(kta)a4ñ ṣñi
5	A 371 b4	näṣ – – n· tsarāṃ	neṣontā	·o /// b5 wartäṃṣiṃ
6	A 409 b2	rñyā tkanaṃ āṣānikāṃ metrak	neṣontā	korisyo wsā /// b3
7	YQ I.1 a8	(tmä)ṣ{†ä} kumseñc klyomänt metrakäṃ	neṣontā	päñ känt manarkāsyo worpu
8	YQ III.8 b3	el träṅkträ ॥ ptāñkät	neṣontā	b4 ///

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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