imesa

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Meaning:	“consciousness, awareness”; “mindfulness”; “thought”; “memory, recollection”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	ime
Lexeme variants:	imesa; īmesa; ymesa
Number:	singular
Case:	perlative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-e
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-e
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-i

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	īme
voc
acc	īme
gen	imentse
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl	imesa
all
caus

Lexeme family

• īme “consciousness, awareness” “mindfulness” “thought” “memory, recollection” m

  	sg
  nom	īme
  acc	īme
  gen	imentse
  perl	imesa

  • imeṣṣe “pertaining to thought/consciousness”

    	sg.m	sg.f	pl.f
    nom	imeṣṣe	imeṣṣa	imeṣṣana
    acc	imeṣṣe		imeṣṣana

  • imassu “mindful, aware, judicious” “cautious, prudent”

    	sg.m
    nom	imassu
    acc	imassont

Occurrences

imesa

1	SI P 2 a6	• ṣals(k)e(mane) (yarm) ;	(i)b1(mesa)	(ka) (po) ; sp(o)rtotär-c
2	THT 337 a3	naumīye naumīyesa maskäṣṣäṃ pärkāwṣe	imesa	sū naumīye päs= täa4rkanalle
3	THT 548 a3	/// tatākarm(e)ṃ toy akṣārnta	imesa	eṅku /// a4 ///

īmesa

1	PK AS 4A b4	: kektsenne ykweṣṣ ;	īmesa	; pelaikneṃnta ; po
2	PK NS 27 a5	kñitär-ñ (kektsenne) (ykweṣṣ) ;	(īmesa)	; (p)elaiknenta ; po
3	PK NS 48 and 258 b5	yneśne lkātsi källoṃ plākt(s)i(ś)c	īmesa	(ñä)b6ṣle (p)o c(m)el(a)ne aiśamñe

ymesa

1	IOL Toch 268 a2	/// a2 /// –	ymesa	tsrelle /// a3 ///
2	PK AS 15I b4	b4 – – na	ymesa	kuña pä /// b5
3	THT 128 a1	5σ a1 ;	ym(e)s(a)	rittäṣṣäṃ ; ścīre rano
4	THT 587.a b3	/// b3 /// (ka)lymisā	ymesa	no mäntäk wräntsai cew
5	THT 1302 b3	tar rine nervāṃṣṣai śle	ymesa	ra 90 b4 ///