lyakäṃ

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Meaning:	“thief”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	lyäk
Lexeme variants:	lyakäṃ
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
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

lyakäṃ

1	IOL Toch 127 b2	yoniyai lutasträ k(l)autkäṣṣäṃ •	lyakäṃ	b3 kr(au)pträ • snai-pewaṃ
2	IOL Toch 603 a4	a4 /// ·ā ·e	(lya)käṃ	vārṣṣem(p)a /// b1 ///