tīrthāñ

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Meaning:	Carling and Pinault 2023: “follower of another religious community, heretic”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	tirthe
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. tīrthya-
Lexeme variants:	tīrthāñ
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-āñ

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• tīrth “follower of another religious community, heretic” m

  	pl
  nom	tīrthāñ

  • tirtheṃ “heretical (adj.)”

    	pl.m	pl.f
    nom	tirtheñ
    acc		tirthenās

  • tirtheṣi

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.f
    nom	tirtheṣi	tirtheṣi
    acc			tirtheṣinās

Occurrences

tīrthāñ

1	A 439 a2	/// kly· – cem	tīrthāñ	tāprä śa /// a3
2	A 439 a4	a4 /// l·äm •	tīrthāñ	träṅkiñc t· /// a5

Bibliography

Carling and Pinault 2023

Carling, Gerd, and Georges-Jean Pinault. 2023. Dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.