pāṣäl

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “protect, observe, beware of”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	pāṣäl
Number:	singular
Stem:	present; subjunctive
Stem class:	2
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	pāṣäl		pāṣlye
voc
acc	pāṣläṃ
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• pās-
  • pās- “protect, observe, beware of” gv
    • pās- “protect, observe, beware of” gv.prs/subj2

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      1	pāsmār, pāsmār-ci
      2	pāṣtār
      3	pāṣītär, pāṣtär	pāsantr-äṃ, pāsantär

      • pāssi “protect, observe, beware of” inf.n.prs/subj2

        	sg
        nom	pāssi
        acc	pāssi

      • pāṣäl “protect, observe, beware of” part.prs/subj2

        	sg.m	pl.m
        nom	pāṣäl	pāṣlye
        acc	pāṣläṃ

      • pāsmāṃ “being protected” part.prs/subj2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	pāsmāṃ	pāsmāṃ	pāsmāṃ	pāsmāṃ
        acc	pāsmāṃ	pāsmāṃ	pāsmāṃ	pāsmāṃ

      • pāṣant “protecting” “obeying rules” “being beware of” ptcp.prs/subj2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	pāṣant	pāṣant	pāṣäntāñ	pāṣäntāñ
        acc			pāṣäntās	pāṣäntās

      • pāṣlune “protect, observe, beware of” abstr.n.prs/subj2

        	sg	pl
        nom	pāṣlune
        acc	pāṣlune	pāṣluneytu
        all	pāṣluneyac

        • pāṣluneyum “provided with guarding, watchful” prs/subj2

          	sg.m
          nom	pāṣluneyum

        • pāṣluneṣi “of protection” prs/subj2

          	pl.f
          acc	pāṣluneṣinās

    • pās- “protect, observe, beware of” gv.pret1

      	sg.mid
      2	pāṣāte
      3	pāṣāt

      • pāpṣu “protect, observe, beware of” part.pret1

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	pāpṣu, pāpṣunt	pāpṣunt	pāpṣuṣ, pāpṣunt	pāpṣunt
        acc	pāpṣunt	pāpṣunt	pāpṣunt	pāpṣunt
        gen			pāpṣuñcäśśi
        loc			pāpṣuñcsaṃ

    • pās- “protect, observe, beware of” gv.imp1

      	sg.mid	pl.mid
      2	ppāṣār	ppāṣāc

Occurrences

pāṣäl

1	A 3 a5	wät nu ; śemäl	pāṣäl	; trit kuryar :
2	A 230 a1	āneṃśi ; ritwäṣlaṃ :	pāṣäl	lyalypūräṣ ; cä – – –

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

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