luwa

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Meaning:	“animal”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	lu
Lexeme variants:	luwa
Number:	singular
Case:	accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-o
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-a
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-āsa

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	luwo	lwāsa
voc
acc	luwa	lwāsa
gen		luwonts, lwāsaṃts
loc		lwāsane
comit		lwāsampa
inst
abl		lwāsameṃ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• luwo “animal” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	luwo	lwāsa
  acc	luwa	lwāsa
  gen		luwonts, lwāsaṃts
  loc		lwāsane
  comit		lwāsampa
  abl		lwāsameṃ

  • lwāññe “pertaining to animals”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	lwāññe
    acc	lwāññe	lwāññai

  • lwasāṣṣe “pertaining to animals”

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	lwasāṣṣe
    acc	lwasāṣṣe	lwasāṣṣai

Occurrences

luwa

1	IOL Toch 129 a1	īme du • snai	luwa	war ne° /// (a)a2naiśai
2	PK AS 17H b1	b1 pl(o)r(i)y(aṃ) āl{p}o(rmeṃ) (s)n(ai)	l(u)w(a)	w(ar)tt(o)n(e) – n· – –
3	THT 340 b5	/// – tsemi yamoṣ	luwa	/// b6 /// saṣämpā
4	THT 358.a b2	/// walo ceu śarabheṃ	luwa	rīne kakāte /// b3
5	THT 1616.e a2	/// a2 /// –	luwa	kau(tsi) /// a3 ///