riyäṣ

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Meaning:	“city”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	rīye
Lexeme variants:	riyäṣ
Number:	singular
Case:	ablative
Gender:	feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-i
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-i
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-iñ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ri, ri-k	riñ
voc
acc	ri, ri-k	ris
gen	riyis
loc	riyaṃ	risaṃ
comit
inst
abl	riyäṣ	risäṣ
perl	riyā
all	riyac
caus

Lexeme family

• ri “city” f

  	sg	pl
  nom	ri, ri-k	riñ
  acc	ri, ri-k	ris
  gen	riyis
  loc	riyaṃ	risaṃ
  abl	riyäṣ	risäṣ
  perl	riyā
  all	riyac

  • riṃ “belonging to a city”

    	pl.m
    acc	rinäs
    abl	riṃsäṣ

  • riṣi “of a city”

    	sg.m
    nom	riṣi

Occurrences

riyäṣ

1	A 11 a1	yāmuräṣ daśagrives pälkālā lāṅk	riyäṣ	läc rāmnac spärk tmäṣ
2	A 66 b6	(täm) (kaklyuṣuräṣ) (ārtañ) v(i)dehak	riyäṣ	lcär cam wram ṣñi
3	A 111 b1	tāṣ kä b1 ///	(r)iyäṣ	läc vyāse riṣaknac yeṣ
4	A 253 a7	ṣontyo koṃ-pärkāñcāṃ yokmā ketumati	ria8(yäṣ)	(läc) ॥ täm pälkoräṣ
5	A 256 a6	yärkant maṅkalänt(u) w(ärpnāmāṃ) (ketuma)a6ti	riyäṣ	läntäṣ äntanne ne samantapuṣp
6	A 266 a3	wrassäṣ yärkant wärpnāmāṃ ketumati	riyäṣ	läntäṣ /// a4 yo
7	A 269 and 290 a4	; picäs ṣā(mnā)ñ ;	(riyäṣ)	(riyac) ; (ypeyäṣ) (ypeyac)
8	A 276 a8	a8 /// maṅkaläntu wä(rp)n(āmāṃ)	(riy)äṣ	lantu(ṣ) okāk su(puṣ)p(i)tib1(s) (yokmaṃ)
9	A 296 b3	kunti tsitoräṣ /// b3	riyäṣ	lanturäṣ kritānikāṃ pä(ltsäkyo) ///
10	A 340 a5	āriñc pältsäk tñi preteṃ	riyäṣ	śwātsi a6 9σ ///
11	A 345 b4	skassuṣ pañitswātse yātälwātse sudarśaṃ	riyäṣ	lantuṣ ñäkcinäs warpi (śkesac)
12	A 429 a4	a4 /// (pä)klyoṣ upādhy(ā)	riyäṣ	kakmus tākā tm· ///
13	YQ I.10 a1	a1 /// (o)kāk bārāṇas	riyäṣ	māgat ypea2(yaṃ) /// –