pāpṣu
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| Meaning: | Carling and Pinault 2023: “protect, observe, beware of” |
| Word class: | adjective |
| Language: | TA |
| Lexeme variants: | pāpṣu |
| Number: | singular |
| Stem: | preterite |
| Stem class: | 1 |
| Case: | nominative |
| Gender: | masculine |
| Inflection class: | |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -nt |
| Nom. pl. (masc.): | -ṣ |
Paradigm
| sg.m | sg.f | pl.m | pl.f | du.m | du.f | |
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| nom | pāpṣu, pāpṣunt | pāpṣunt | pāpṣuṣ, pāpṣunt | pāpṣunt | ||
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| acc | pāpṣunt | pāpṣunt | pāpṣunt | pāpṣunt | ||
| gen | pāpṣuñcäśśi | |||||
| loc | pāpṣuñcsaṃ | |||||
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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
- pāṣluneyum “provided with guarding, watchful”
prs/subj2
- pāssi “protect, observe, beware of”
inf.n.prs/subj2
- pās- “protect, observe, beware of”
gv.pret1
sg.mid 2 pāṣāte 3 pāṣāt - pās- “protect, observe, beware of”
gv.imp1
sg.mid pl.mid 2 ppāṣār ppāṣāc
- pās- “protect, observe, beware of”
gv.prs/subj2
- pās- “protect, observe, beware of”
gv
Occurrences
pāpṣu
| 1 | A 117 a2 | träṅkänträ kus ne āṣträṃ | pāpṣu | a3 /// tatär mā |
| 2 | A 117 a5 | a5 3σ 18σ /// | (p)āpṣu | wra(s)om ; sne onmiṃ |
| 3 | A 125 and THT 1425.e and A 117 a2 | träṅkänträ kus ne āṣträṃ | pāpṣu | a3 neyaṃ ṣtmoṣ tākeñc |
| 4 | A 125 and THT 1425.e and A 117 a3 | a3 neyaṃ ṣtmoṣ tākeñc | pāpṣu | ¤ ne (ya)tatär mā |
| 5 | A 125 and THT 1425.e and A 117 a5 | : pā{ṣ→p}ṣuneyäṣ wärcetsnu(nt) /// | (p)āpṣu | wra(s)om sne onmiṃ śla |
| 6 | A 230 a6 | s· 1σ wāwo ; | pāpṣu | spärkā;lune yiṣ : – – |
| 7 | A 307 a2 | ṣom karmapaa2(th) (kätkāluneyäṣ) (närkāṣluneyo) | (pāpṣu) | (ṣe)ṣ sās kapśañi toṣ |
| 8 | A 347 a4 | ; śil pat nu | pāpṣu | ; yāmu b1 pat |
| 9 | THT 2958 a4 | a4 /// ·p· ṣānt | pāpṣu | /// a5 /// – |
| 10 | YQ I.9 b4 | ; wawiku ; knānmāṃ | pāpṣu | : lkātsy ab5(sinät) ; |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
