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caitike

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Meaning:	Name in caravan passes and graffiti
Semantic field:	personal name
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. caitika-, Skt. Caitika-
Lexeme variants:	caitike
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

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

Lexeme family

• caitike m

  	sg
  nom	caitike

Commentary

Probably a borrowing of the Skt. Caitika-, which is attested as a personal name (cf. Edgerton 1953: 233,2), but is also the name of a Buddhist school. This name is probalby derived from caitya-, meaning "funeral monument, sanctuary" (cf. Monier-Williams 1899: 402,2)

Occurrences

caitike

1	G-Qa 1 a2	– ·katvu riṣi koṃnmaikaṃkauśke	caitike	tane kameṃ tuṃñ pyāpyaisa
2	PK Bois B17 a2	• ikäṃ okne •	caitike	a3ākṣa •
3	PK DA M 507.35 a44	/// (śwe)a44rsa 4 ṣeme	caitike	kamāte św(e)rsa 4 a45
4	PK DA M 507.35 a44	/// (śwe)a44rsa 4 ṣeme	caitike	kamāte św(e)rsa 4 a45
5	PK DA M 507.38 a39	– – – – – – – – – – – (ś)wer(s)a 4 ṣea39me	caitike	kamāte śwersa 4 a40
6	PK DA M 507.38 a39	– – – – – – – – – – – (ś)wer(s)a 4 ṣea39me	caitike	kamāte śwersa 4 a40
7	PK LC 6 a1	moko kepautiś(k)e wai tsañi	caitike	tsäṅkan(a) kamānte p(iś) ///
8	THT 460 a3	putteyānentse kapci a3///	caitike	lyāka se kapci #ERROR#

Bibliography

Edgerton 1953

Edgerton, Franklin. 1953. Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit grammar and dictionary. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Monier-Williams 1899

Monier-Williams, Monier. 1899. A Sanskrit-English dictionary. Etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languages. new edition, greatly enlarged and improved, London: Clarendon Press (several reprints).