kärpiyeṃ

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Meaning:	“common, base, raw, rough”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	kärpi
Lexeme variants:	kärpiyeṃ; kärpyeṃ
Number:	singular
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-e
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-eṃ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-i

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	kärpiye
voc
acc	kärpiyeṃ
gen			kärpīyeṃts
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• kärpiye “common, base, raw, rough”

  	sg.m	pl.m
  nom	kärpiye
  acc	kärpiyeṃ
  gen		kärpīyeṃts

Occurrences

kärpyeṃ

1	THT 83 a1	lareṃnmeṃ tsrelñ(e)s(a) ; saṃsārn(e)	kä(r)py(eṃ)	ce ; p(a)lyks(a)t(ai) (twe)
2	THT 92 b4	lykaśkaṃ ; lkāntar-ne :	kärpyeṃ	św(ātsi) ; (śe)ś(w)orsa ;
3	THT 288 b2	/// rano mäsketär •	kärpyeṃ	camel cau āś su

kärpiyeṃ

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IOL Toch 790 b2

/// b2 /// •

kärpiyeṃ

cmel(ṣ)eṃ ·e ///