lyśi

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Meaning:	“thief”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	lyäk
Lexeme variants:	lyśi; lyśī
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-aṃ
Nom. pl. (masc.):	P-i

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	lyak	lyśi
voc
acc	lykaṃ	lyakäṃ
gen	lykantse	lykaṃts
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• lyak “thief” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	lyak	lyśi
  acc	lykaṃ	lyakäṃ
  gen	lykantse	lykaṃts

  • lykuññe “pertaining to a thief, to theft” “theft”

    	sg.m
    nom	lykuññe
    acc	lykuññe

Occurrences

lyśi

1	IOL Toch 486 b2	/// – nte śeruwi	lyśi	/// b3 /// °kalña
2	THT 33 a4	; sompastr ekñenta ;	lyśi	no alyeṅkäṃs ; cowai
3	THT 388 b6	(tsä)b6ṅkärwa ; mänt –	lyśi	täṅwäññe – – – – – /// 1σ
4	THT 1203.d b4	/// b4 skwäṣe naumyentse	lyśi	co /// b5 – – – –

lyśī

1	PK AS 7H b1	alyaik ṣpä wnolmi :	lyśī	no māka krui tākaṃ
2	PK AS 17J b6	weṣ(ṣ)äṃ ॥ pañca(mn)e ॥	lyśī	ku(s)e tällāṃñc (ono)lmi ;