pñintuyo

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Meaning:	“virtue” Carling and Pinault 2023: “merit”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. puṇya-
Lexeme variants:	pñintuyo
Number:	plural
Case:	instrumental
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	pñi, pñi-k	pñintu, pñintu-kk
voc
acc	pñi, pñi-k	pñintu, pñintu-kk
gen	päññis	pñintwāśśi
loc		pñintwaṃ
comit		pñiṃtwaśśäl
inst		pñintuyo
abl		pñintwäṣ
perl		pñintwā
all	päññac
caus

Lexeme family

• pñi “merit” “virtue” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	pñi, pñi-k	pñintu, pñintu-kk
  acc	pñi, pñi-k	pñintu, pñintu-kk
  gen	päññis	pñintwāśśi
  loc		pñintwaṃ
  comit		pñiṃtwaśśäl
  inst		pñintuyo
  abl		pñintwäṣ
  perl		pñintwā
  all	päññac

  • pñiṣi “of merit”

    	sg.m	pl.f
    nom	pñiṣi
    acc	pñiṣinäṃ	pñiṣinās

Occurrences

pñintuyo

1	A 13 b4	ske pñi : 1	pñintuyo	(tampe)b5wāts ; yäṣ wäl
2	A 17 a6	kāswe ; mäskatär :	pñintuyo	pälkäṣ ; amok ciñcär
3	A 17 b1	; kulatär : {1}	pñintuyo	koṃ-ñkät ; mañkät yuknāṣ
4	A 17 b2	; eprera(ṃ) (:) b2	(pñin)tuyo	mañkät ; śres grahäntu
5	A 57 b6	lāntub6(ne) /// sne mem	pñintuyo	yetu tāmāṣ kätkoräṣ tuṣit

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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