ñuwe

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Meaning:	“(adj.) new”; “(n.) day of the New Moon, novice”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	ñu
Lexeme variants:	ñuwe
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-e
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-eṃ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	ñuwe			ñwona
voc
acc	ñuweṃ	ñuwai		ñwona
gen
loc	ñuweṃne
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ñuwe “(adj.) new” “(n.) day of the New Moon, novice”

  	sg.m	sg.f	pl.f
  nom	ñuwe		ñwona
  acc	ñuweṃ	ñuwai	ñwona
  loc	ñuweṃne

  • ñwenakke Name in administrative and monastic records m

    	sg
    nom	ñwenakke

  • ñwetstse “new, novice”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	ñwetstse
    acc	ñwecce
    gen		ñwecceṃts

    • ñwetstsäññe “youth (?)” “novelty (?)”

      	sg
      nom	ñwetstsäññe
      acc	ñwetstsäññe

      • ñwetstsäññeṣṣe “new, youthful (?)”

        	sg.m
        nom	ñwetstsäññeṣṣe
        acc	ñwetstsäññeṣṣe

  • ñwemaṣṣe “new”

    	sg.m
    nom	ñwemaṣṣe
    acc	ñwemaṣṣe

Occurrences

ñuwe

1	PK AS 8C b2	yamaṣle • cew wentesa	ñuwe	kuntiśke taṣale • ton
2	THT 167 a5	/// a5 /// tsane	ñuwe	/// a6 /// tākaṣ
3	THT 360 a1	a1 /// kä(r)y(o)rttañc mäskīye(ntä)r	ñuwe	ñuwetsäṃñe a2 /// śinona