pretās

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

pretās

1	A 41 b1	– ॥ mar ñom-kälywāts	pre(tās)	/// (e)b2ll āyit :
2	A 42 a3	(ā)a3nāsāśśi el essi ///	(pre)a4tās	: mā cem el
3	YQ II.6 b6	; 11σ /// (ñare)	(pretās)	; (lwāṣi)nāñ ; opyāc