uṣṇīr

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Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “excrescence (on the head of the Buddha)”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	uṣṇīr
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. uṣṇīṣa-
Lexeme variants:	uṣṇīr; uṣṇir
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• uṣṇīr “excrescence (on the head of the Buddha)”

  	sg
  nom	uṣṇīr
  acc	uṣṇīr

Occurrences

uṣṇīr

1	A 213 a7	kayurṣiss o(ki) pätkru 30	uṣṇīr	mrācaṃ 30-1 ārki kum
2	YQ II.5 a5	pätkru 30 a5	(uṣṇīr)	(mrācaṃ) (30-1) (ārki) (kum)

uṣṇir

1

YQ II.10 a7

; rājavartt yok ;

uṣṇia8(r)

(mrācaṃ) ; 7σ 5σ

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.