osta-ṣmeñca

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Meaning:	“householder”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	osta-ṣmeñca
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-a
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ai
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-añ

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	osta-ṣmeñca, osta-ṣmeṃca, ostä-ṣmeñca	osta-ṣmeñcaṃ, ostä-ṣmeñcaṃ
voc
acc	osta-ṣmeñcai
gen	osta-ṣmeñcantse
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• osta-ṣmeñca “householder” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	osta-ṣmeñca, osta-ṣmeṃca, ostä-ṣmeñca	osta-ṣmeñcaṃ, ostä-ṣmeñcaṃ
  acc	osta-ṣmeñcai
  gen	osta-ṣmeñcantse

Occurrences

osta-ṣmeñca

1	IOL Toch 31 b3	/// b3 /// (sa)ndhane	osta-ṣmeñca	palskone mä° /// b4
2	PK AS 7A b3	b3 /// ;	(os)t(a)-ṣm(e)ñca	; śāte (ṣ)ai ;
3	PK AS 17D a6	; śpālmeṃ ste ;	osta-ṣmeñca	; naum(y)eb1(ssu) (:) –
4	THT 409 a3	/// a3 /// ·eṃ	osta-ṣmeñca	ṣañ palskalñeṣṣe l·· ///
5	THT 1539.f a3	/// a3 /// (a)l(e)tse	osta-ṣme(ñca)	/// a4 /// (ya)m(a)ṣṣäṃ
6	THT 1548.a b3	/// jotiṣki pācer subhādre	osta-ṣmeñca	orocce tekine kārpa ///
7	THT 1683 b5	aklyo /// b5 yyai	osta-ṣmeñca	– ·o ///
8	THT 2354 a4	·v· ti cew prek·	osta-ṣmeñca	ñem· /// a5 ///