ortāsā

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “friend”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	ortāsā
Number:	plural
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom		ortās
voc
acc		ortās
gen	ortāp
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl		ortāsā
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ort “friend” m

  	sg	pl
  nom		ortās
  acc		ortās
  gen	ortāp
  perl		ortāsā

  • ortum “friendly”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	ortum	ortumäṣ
    acc		ortumäñcäs

  • ortune “friendship” n

    	sg
    nom	ortune
    acc	ortune
    inst	ortuneyo

    • ortuneṣi “friendly”

      	sg.m
      acc	ortuneṣiṃ

Occurrences

ortāsā

1

A 3 b4

: ṣñi ṣñaṣṣesā ;

ortāsā

; – – 2σ b5

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.