ṣmeñca

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Meaning:	“sitting, remaining”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	ṣmeñca
Number:	singular
Stem:	present
Stem class:	2
Valency:	intransitive
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine; feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-a
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ai
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	ṣmeñca	ṣmeñca	ṣmeñcañ	ṣmeñcañ
voc
acc	ṣmeñcai	ṣmeñcai	ṣmeñcaṃ	ṣmeñcaṃ
gen	ṣmeñcantse	ṣmeñcantse
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• ṣäm-
  • ṣäm- “to sit, remain” gv
    • ṣäm- “to sit, remain” gv.prs2

      	sg.act	pl.act
      1	ṣamau
      2		ṣmīcer
      3	ṣami, ṣamäṃ	ṣamyeṃ, ṣameṃ

      • ṣmalle “to sit, remain” part.prs2

        	sg.m
        nom	ṣmalle

      • ṣmeñca “sitting, remaining” ptcp.prs2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	ṣmeñca	ṣmeñca	ṣmeñcañ	ṣmeñcañ
        acc	ṣmeñcai	ṣmeñcai	ṣmeñcaṃ	ṣmeñcaṃ
        gen	ṣmeñcantse	ṣmeñcantse

      • ṣmemane “sitting” part.prs2

        	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
        nom	ṣmemane	ṣmemane	ṣmemane	ṣmemane
        acc	ṣmemane	ṣmemane	ṣmemane	ṣmemane

Occurrences

ṣmeñca

1	IOL Toch 230 a1	a1 /// – ññ·	ṣmeñca	k· – – /// a2
2	IOL Toch 253 b3	/// b3 /// –	ṣmeñca	olyp(o)tse pernew se :
3	PK NS 19 b2	yaknesa kañcāṃ ysāṣṣe kwrakārne	ṣm(eñca)	– nn· – – ///
4	PK NS 72 a2	··ṃ no aletse o(sta)	(ṣmeñca)	/// a3 /// (ta)rya
5	THT 159 b2	/// b2 /// (o)mpalskoññe	ṣmeñca	kleśa(nma) (ai)śai yamasträ •
6	THT 1556 a2	mäkte a2 /// –	ṣmeñca	ś(a)maiśke lyelyakormeṃ orotstsai katkauñai