pretāśśi

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

pretāśśi

1	A 44 a1	(tālo)a1ñcäśśi	pretāśśi	wär tsuko – ///
2	A 45 a2	/// a2 · w(ä)r	pr(e)tāśśi	śäl āñcāl(yī) (tsaränyo) ///
3	A 45 a6	(p)ā(pśunt) /// a6 puk	pretāśśi	lkālā ā /// (ptā)b1ñkät