postanu
| Cite this page as: | "postanu". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_B_postanu (accessed 16 Jan. 2026). |
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| Meaning: | “latter, later, last” |
| Word class: | adjective |
| Language: | TB |
| Lexeme variants: | postanu |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative |
| Gender: | masculine |
| Inflection class: | |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -u |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -ont |
| Nom. pl. (masc.): | -oñc |
Paradigm
| sg.m | sg.f | pl.m | pl.f | du.m | du.f | |
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| nom | postanu | |||||
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| acc | postanontäṃ | |||||
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| loc | ||||||
| comit | ||||||
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Lexeme family
- postäṃ “afterwards, later, finally (Adv.), after (Postp.)”
- postaṃ “afterwards”
- postanu “latter, later, last”
sg.m pl.m nom postanu acc postanontäṃ - postaññe “(adj.) later, latter”
“(adv.) later”
“in the end”
“even”
“eventually”
sg.m nom postaññe acc postaññe
Occurrences
postanu
| 1 | THT 107 b10 | yamaṣṣate se ñi posa | postanu | präthagjaññene pinwāt warpalñe tākaṃ |
| 2 | THT 510 a1 | a1 śtärcepi | postanu | pākäṣ te weṣäl(e)nirgatam āyuṣmaṃ |
| 3 | THT 510 a5 | a5 avaciṣṭa ॥ piṃce | postanu | pāṣä te wele nirgatam |
