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sänmassontäṃts

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Meaning:	A technical term for a class of people/professionals < adj. *'calm'
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	sänmassontäṃts
Number:	plural
Case:	genitive
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	sänmassu
voc
acc
gen			sänmassontäṃts
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• sanme
  • sänmetse

    	sg.m	sg.f
    nom	sänmetse	sänmetsa

  • sänmassu

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	sänmassu
    gen		sänmassontäṃts

Commentary

Morphologically, a productively built adjective in -ssu from an unattested (but reconstructable) noun sanme '± sleep'; the meaning of the once attested gen.pl., however, is used as a substantive and refers to a particular class of people/professionals < "those who induce calm/appease" (in a ritual context connected with the New Year's Festival?); see Pinault and Ogihara 2010: 184f., Adams 2013a: 749.

Occurrences

Bibliography

Adams 2013a

Adams, Douglas Q. 2013a. A dictionary of Tocharian B. Revised and greatly enlarged. 2nd ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

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.