snum

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Meaning:	“perfume”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Lexeme variants:	snum; sunum
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	snum
voc
acc	snum
gen
loc
comit
inst		snumäntuyo
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• snum “perfume” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	snum
  acc	snum
  inst		snumäntuyo

  • snumṣi “pertaining to perfume”

    	sg.m
    acc	snumṣiṃ, snumṣinän

Occurrences

snum

1	A 21 b5	pracre(s) śäṃ sewāsaśśäl ṣyak	snum	pyāpi sāt wär kuñci{n→t}ṣi
2	THT 1487 a4	/// āttāy ñom tāk	s(num)	/// b1 /// lm·
3	THT 3336 a1	a1 ///	snum	suk ñi – ///
4	YQ III.11 b3	āṣtraṃ wsālu wasu •	snum	b4 (pyāpy)· /// (ṣāmnā)śśi
5	YQ III.11 b6	ñwaṃ wsālu wasu tsaraṃ	snum	pyāpyo waṣtwaṣ lanturäb7(ṣ) ///

s_unum

1

YQ III.1 b5

/// (par)mā vipaśyi ptāñkte

sunum

pyāpyo śwātsi yoktsiyo kälymeyā