oṅkälmeṃ

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “elephant-”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	oṅkälmeṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	oṅkälmeṃ		oṅkälmeñi
voc
acc	oṅkälmeṃ
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• oṅkaläm “elephant” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	oṅkaläm	oṅkälmāñ
  acc	oṅkaläm	oṅkälmās
  gen	oṅkälme	oṅkälmāśśi
  inst		oṅkälmāsyo
  abl		oṅkälmāsäṣ
  perl		oṅkälmāsā

  • oṅkälmāñc “elephant” f

    	sg
    nom	oṅkälmāñc
    acc	oṅkälmāñc

  • oṅkälmāṣi “elephant”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	oṅkälmāṣi	oṅkälmāṣi
    acc	oṅkälmāṣi	oṅkälmāṣi

  • oṅkälmeṃ “elephant-”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	oṅkälmeṃ	oṅkälmeñi
    acc	oṅkälmeṃ

Occurrences

oṅkälmeṃ

1	A 77 b3	ṣulyiṃ kälymeyac spā – – – –	(o)ṅkälmeṃ	b4 /// ñcäm
2	A 88 b5	oppal pākäb5(r) (tāṣ) ///	(o)ṅkälmeṃ	wäl na b6 ///
3	A 461 a3	॥ /// a3 ///	oṅkälmeṃ	ā{ṅ}kar ॥ mahāśaila •

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.