luwo

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Meaning:	“animal”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	lu
Lexeme variants:	luwo; lūwo
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
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

luwo

1	IOL Toch 129 a2	/// (a)a2naiśai mā lakaṃ	luwo	rano o° /// a3
2	THT 358.a a3	kārre ṣai su śarabhe	luwo	eṣke pruka brahmadatte wa(lo)
3	THT 358.a b1	/// b1 /// (s)ū	luw(o)	tsā – – t·ne śāmñe
4	THT 404 a3	kektseñe ṣeyä : salamo	luwo	; /// 12σ a4
5	THT 576 a3	/// a3 /// ·e	luwo	ṣey omp empele :
6	THT 1573.i b4	b4 /// – mo	luwo	: pa – ///
7	U 5208	čočokkıya {।} (13) kidi	luwo	। koŋuz । (14)

lūwo

1

THT 88 b1

pācer cwimp ; kurār

lūwo

tu yäknes(a) ; kwäsnāträ