ceṃ

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Meaning:	demonstrative stem
Word class:	adjective
Word subclass:	pronoun
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	ceṃ; cceṃ; cen
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	sg.n	pl.m	pl.f	pl.n	du.m	du.f	du.n
nom	se, seṃ, samp, su, su-k	sā, sāṃ, somp, sāu	te, teṃ, tamp, tu, te-k, tu-k	cai, caimp, ceya-k	toy, toyna, toymp, toṃ, tona-k		tai, tai-k
voc
acc	ce, ceṃ, comp, co, cau, ce-k, cau-k	tā, tāṃ, tomp, tāu, tā-k	te, teṃ, tamp, tu, te-k, tu-k	ceṃ, cenän, ceyna, cena-k	toy, toyna, toymp, toṃ, tona-k		tai, tai-k
gen	cwi, cwimp	tāy	tentse, tuntse	cenaṃts, ceṃts, ceynaṃts, cempaṃts, centsa-k	toynaṃts, toṃts		tainaisi, tainaisäñ
loc	cene, caune, cene-k		tūne, teṃne, tu-kne
comit	caumpa		tempa		toynampa
inst
abl	cemeṃ, caumeṃ		temen, teṃmeṃ, tammeṃ, tumeṃ	ceṃmeṃ	toṃmeṃ
perl	compsa, causa		tesa, tūsa, tusa, tusā-k	ceynasa	toṃtsa
all	cewäśc		teśc, tuśc	cenäśc
caus

Lexeme family

• s- demonstrative stem dem
  • cwiññe “pertaining to this one” “his, her, its”

    	sg.m	pl.f
    nom	cwiññe	cwiññana
    acc	cwiññe	cwiññana

  • sanuññe “hatred, enmity, hostility” msg

    	sg
    nom	sanuññe
    acc	sanuññe

  • tumpa “then, therewith”
  • tuwak “this [emphatic]”
  • tune “there in, in it”

Occurrences

cen

1	IOL Toch 68 b2	॥ ñśaṣṣe eṅkäl rinaccu	cen	nai welñe ptārka pä(st)
2	THT 16 a6	; wnolme pällāträ ;	cen	ra nakṣtär ; kuse
3	THT 133 a4	mā ; yāmoṣäṃ ;	cen	(n)o śäccä;tsī pkate 10-4

cceṃ

1	THT 133 b4	pekwe – 20-6 pekweṃ	cceṃ	sū ; kāmāte ;
2	THT 1210 a2	retke o a2 ///	cceṃ	ma ri lāñcä wra
3	THT 1227.a a4	ktsa – /// a4	cceṃ	räntä ṅkä /// b1
4	THT 1311 b3	– – – – – /// b3 ///	cceṃ	wawārpaṣo täṅwaṃ ññi •
5	THT 1345.b b2	ymñe wat ṣaña le	cceṃ	b3 /// rya saṃkhyaiṣṣai
6	THT 1394.t b3	b3 /// p· māṃ	cceṃ	• walo ·t· ///
7	THT 1399.c a3	/// a3 /// ·ā	cceṃ	lykäśke ke /// a4
8	THT 1404.m a1	a1 /// ·r· ·k·	cceṃ	– /// a2 ///
9	THT 1551 a4	(wa)rwāte se p· –	cceṃ	(a)rkwina sa śśī –