ostwane

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Meaning:	“house”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	waṣt
Lexeme variants:	ostwane
Number:	plural
Case:	locative
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

ostwane

1	THT 31 b6	: riṃne kuṣaiṃne ;	ostwane	; ṣek yeyeṃ ceṃ
2	THT 1627.g a2	a2 /// – tsä	ostwane	: /// a3 ///