pretāñ

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Meaning:	“ghost”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	prete
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. preta-
Lexeme variants:	pretāñ
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	pret	pretāñ
voc
acc		pretās
gen		pretāśśi
loc		pretāsaṃ
comit
inst
abl		pretāsäṣ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• pret “ghost” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	pret	pretāñ
  acc		pretās
  gen		pretāśśi
  loc		pretāsaṃ
  abl		pretāsäṣ

  • pretāñc f

    	sg
    nom	pretāñc

  • preteṃ “of a ghost”

    	sg.m
    acc	preteṃ

Occurrences

pretāñ

1	A 40 b3	/// b3 ṣpätmāṃ	pretāñ	mä /// (tä)b4m kaklyuṣurä(ṣ)
2	A 41 b2	(e)b2ll āyit : śāwe	pretāñ	/// b3 ñuk tām
3	A 41 b6	/// b6 kucyone cem	pretāñ	ne° ///
4	A 42 b4	wär kyal tu ///	(pre)b5tāñ	nākñlye nāṃtsuṣ /// (a)b6padāt
5	A 46		(pre)a1tāñ	wräṃtuyo sasyurä(ṣ) /// a2
6	A 46 b3	b3 naṃ ॥	pretāñ	tā /// (yo)b4ktsi :
7	A 314 a4	(puk) (ālykes) (loka)dhātuṃnwäṣ lwā	pretāñ	na(peñi) puk anapär lmoṣṣ
8	A 320 a5	a5 /// ñare lwā	pretāñ	kaṣt yok(e)yo kakärnuṣ ṣeñc
9	A 320 b5	/// ; (ñāre) lwāyo	pretāñ	; puk klopant mrasar
10	A 340 a3	/// a3 /// (klyoṣār)	(pretāñ)	(tä)m{†ä} ; śwātsiṣy ākālyo
11	A 340 a5	5σ /// (tm-äk) (ce)m	pretāñ	; litkoṣṣ oki ;
12	A 340 a8	pärmaṅkyo ; lcär tmäṣ	pretāñ	; wältsantuyo ; ārwar
13	A 340 a9	r 80-1 s(n)e pärmaṅk	pretāñ	; weñār ṣokyo nū