pāssi
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| Meaning: | Carling and Pinault 2023: “protect, observe, beware of” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TA |
| Lexeme variants: | pāssi |
| Number: | singular |
| Stem: | present; subjunctive |
| Stem class: | 2 |
| Case: | nominative; accusative |
| Gender: | alternating |
| Inflection class: | |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -Ø |
| Nom. pl. (masc.): | -ntu |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
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| nom | pāssi | ||
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| acc | pāssi | ||
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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
pāssi
| 1 | A 64 a2 | āṣtraṃ pāpṣuneṣiṃ wkäṃ śolā | pāssi | wärporäṣ päknāmo kotnaṣ ceṣ |
| 2 | A 69 a3 | ; puk praṣtaṃ ; | pās(s)i | pkāte : 1 ॥ |
| 3 | A 176 a2 | /// saṃ pat nu | pāssi | wotku • nand· /// |
| 4 | A 230 a4 | raritwā : skāyā arth | pāssi | ; a5 rakentu nu |
| 5 | A 256 a3 | purpār tkaṃ (el) ; | (pā)a4ssi | se : āpas pācräśśi |
| 6 | A 370 b4 | ñaktañ naivāsikāñ tri ñemintu | pās(s)i | wräpoṣ • bramñät wlāññät |
| 7 | SHT 4523 and 1044 b2 | kātäk praṣtā ·k· | pāssi | b5 wlesaṃsune |


