ānte

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Meaning:	“surface, face, forehead”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	ānt
Lexeme variants:	ānte
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine_singular
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-e
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-e

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ānte
voc
acc	ānte
gen
loc	āntene
comit	āntempa
inst
abl
perl	āntesa
all	ānteśc
caus

Lexeme family

• ānte “surface, face, forehead” msg

  	sg
  nom	ānte
  acc	ānte
  loc	āntene
  comit	āntempa
  perl	āntesa
  all	ānteśc

Occurrences

ānte

1	IOL Toch 278 b4	kn· snai lyipär kāskat	ānte	mītäs-me /// b5 ///
2	PK AS 13I a8	/// (prau)tkare ramt ipreräntse	ānte	ñä(kcyana) (naumiyentasa) b1 ///
3	PK AS 17B b4	prentse – – t· akab4śäntse	ānte	• tu lyelya(k)ormeṃ kāmāvacarṣṣi
4	PK NS 19 a3	yok iprernste ; lukṣäṃ	ānte	1 ॥ lāntsa weṣṣäṃ
5	PK NS 36 and 20 b2	k(entsa) ; /// b2	ānte	yke-postäṃ ; yāmmar p(ā)k(e)
6	THT 9 b3	yparwe : pärwān= epiṅk;t=	ānte	/// 12σ 18σ 7σ
7	THT 93 b4	a° /// ; 6σ	(ānte)	; (yke-postäṃ) ; (yāmmar)
8	THT 350 a4	sū rano ṣäp ipreräntse	ānte	snai tärkarwa astare klautka
9	THT 1442 a1	a1 k· ly·k	ānte	/// a2 yke postäṃ
10	THT 1681 a2	mai ñake pradyote lānta	ānte	āntempa we /// a3
11	THT 1881 b2	– /// b2 ///	ānte	ke /// b3 ///