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orsa

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Meaning:	“wood, piece of wood, wood stick”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	or
Lexeme variants:	orsa; orsā
Number:	singular
Case:	perlative
Gender:	alternating

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	or	ārwa
voc
acc	or	ārwa
gen		arwāṃts
loc	orne
comit
inst
abl
perl	orsa
all
caus

Lexeme family

• or n

  	sg	pl
  nom	or	ārwa
  acc	or	ārwa
  gen		arwāṃts
  loc	orne
  perl	orsa

  • oraṣṣe

    	sg.m
    nom	oraṣṣe
    acc	oraṣṣe

Commentary

Note that there is no compound or-śacakare 'ratification on a piece of wood', because one has to separate the passages as orśa ccākare; see Pinault and Ogihara 2010: 186f. against Pinault 1987a: 82.

Occurrences

orsa

1	PK AS 12B b6	• mäk(te) /// b6	·orsa	täṅwä miyäṣṣäṃ • te
2	THT 304 b5	9σ ///	·orsa	; mā nesäṃ ;

orsā

1

THT 133 a2

; piṇṭvāt ra ;

orsā

– – ; ·y· ccä

Bibliography

Pinault 1987a

Pinault, Georges-Jean. 1987a. “Épigraphie koutchéenne. I. Laissez-passer de caravanes. II. Graffites et inscriptions.” Sites divers de la région de Koutcha 8: 59–196 + XL.

Pinault and Ogihara 2010

Pinault, Georges-Jean, and Hirotoshi Ogihara. 2010. “Un fragment de planchette de bois en tokharien B.” Journal Asiatique 298.1: 173–202.