ost

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Meaning:	“house”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	waṣt
Lexeme variants:	ost; ostä; os=
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-wa

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	ost	ostūwa
voc
acc	ost	ostūwa
gen	ostantse
loc	ostne	ostwane
comit
inst
abl	ostmeṃ, ostameṃ	ostwameṃ
perl
all	ostäśc	ostwaśc
caus

Lexeme family

• ost “house” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	ost	ostūwa
  acc	ost	ostūwa
  gen	ostantse
  loc	ostne	ostwane
  abl	ostmeṃ, ostameṃ	ostwameṃ
  all	ostäśc	ostwaśc

  • ostaññe “(adj.) pertaining to a house(hold), belonging to the same household” “(n.) householder”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	ostaññe	ostaññi
    acc	ostaññe

  • ostaṣṣe “house”

    	sg.m
    nom	ostaṣṣe
    acc	ostaṣṣe

Occurrences

ost

1	IOL Toch 648 a3	/// a3 /// °skai	ost	ri /// b1 ///
2	IOL Toch 778 b2	/// b2 /// ·	ost	ṣmemane ñe° /// b3
3	PK AS 6A a2		ost
4	PK AS 6C a1	na(ndeṃ) (pä)lk(o)rme(ṃ) 80(-2) mäkt(e)	(o)st	kaa2rtse aipoṣ ; swese
5	PK AS 6C a4	wäntre ṣärpau-me : mäkte	ost	poṣiyantsa ; waa5wārpau papaikau
6	PK AS 7A b6	twe ; empreṃne :	ost	ṣmemane ; (te) weṣṣit
7	PK AS 7O b6	/// kwip= empreṃtsñentse :	ost	kälyamñentse po yāta(lñe) ///
8	PK AS 19.15 a4	·s· /// a4 ///	ost	lamästsi tu ṣarm ka
9	PK NS 37 b4	naḍāgāra iva kuṃja(ra) (kä)rwāṣṣe	ost	ram no oṅkolmo •
10	PK NS 83 a1	॥ tume(ṃ) br(ā)hm(a)ṇe kä(r)wāṣṣe	ost	tke(ṃt)sa śamä(śkaṃ) (we)säñ sp(ä)
11	THT 9 a8	3σ ; mīsasa ;	ost	astāṣṣe : /// 18σ
12	THT 33 a7	; ṣeyme kurpelle ;	ost	olypo ṣaicer ; makci
13	THT 42 b6	postäṃ ; prautka ramt	ost	cau po ; yolaiṃ
14	THT 50 a7	(a)lanmeṃ kca : olypo	ost	lamam ; tne-k wes
15	THT 123 b5	täṅsa 1 māka läklenta	o(st)	/// b6 lamälñe kraketse
16	THT 257 a3	kauc ; kauc ka	ost	yaṃ su ; säswāts
17	THT 585 a5	serki ramt a5 ///	ost	lāmaṃ mäkceu a6 ///
18	THT 1267 b2	/// sa käskātär ṅke	ost	karpoñña ñ(äś) k(ār)päsk· –

ostä

1	PK AS 6B b2	toṃ ślokanma 70-9 mäkte	ostä	pakwāreṃ ; aipoṣä swese
2	THT 33 a5	wteṃtse ; kraupalle 2	ostä	ṣmemanentse ; māka kurpelle
3	THT 33 b2	ṣamāññe ; āśäṃ ostw	ostä	; tärknaṃ aklyilñe ;
4	THT 33 b3	{:} nauntai nauntai ;	ostä	ostä ; se sampä
5	THT 33 b3	nauntai nauntai ; ostä	ostä	; se sampä ksa
6	THT 1374.j a1	ścä l· m postäṃ	ostä	/// a2 pelaiknene •

os=

1	PK AS 6C b7	: maim(a)b7(ntsñ)entse mā yām(w)	os=	; tärkau wat ānts=
2	SI B 120(1) b4	/// (ṣä)p paṣṣīträ snai	os=	tākoi 30-7 ku(mbhopamaṃ) ///