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 | |
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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
- sänmetse
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, Douglas Q. 2013a. A dictionary of Tocharian B. Revised and greatly enlarged. 2nd ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Pinault, Georges-Jean, and Hirotoshi Ogihara. 2010. “Un fragment de planchette de bois en tokharien B.” Journal Asiatique 298.1: 173–202.
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