saim-wäste
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| Meaning: | “support and refuge”; “protector, often epithet of the Buddha” |
| Word class: | noun |
| Language: | TB |
| Lexeme variants: | saim-wäste |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative; accusative |
| Gender: | masculine_singular |
| Inflection class: | |
| Nom. sg. (masc.): | -e |
| Obl. sg. (masc.): | -e |
Paradigm
| sg | pl | du | |
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| nom | saim-wäste | ||
| voc | saim-wästa | ||
| acc | saim-wäste | ||
| gen | |||
| loc | |||
| comit | |||
| inst | |||
| abl | |||
| perl | |||
| all | |||
| caus |
Lexeme family
- saim-wäste “support and refuge”
“protector, often epithet of the Buddha”
msg
sg nom saim-wäste voc saim-wästa acc saim-wäste - saim-wästetse “having support and refuge”
sg.m nom saim-wästetse
- saim-wästetse “having support and refuge”
Occurrences
saim-wäste
| 1 | IOL Toch 99 b3 | /// – nte | saim-wäste | puś nauṣ yāmṣar(e) ś·° |
| 2 | IOL Toch 183 b1 | onolmentso po päst wärpanamar | saim(-w)ä(ste) | /// b2 /// ·entse |
| 3 | THT 12 a8 | ; k(us)e ṣañ śaumo | saim-wä(st)e | {:} ś(r)āvasti /// 11σ |
| 4 | THT 22 b2 | po piś cmelṣets ; | saim-wäs(t)e | 70-1 śrāvasti rib3ne ; |
| 5 | THT 237 b3 | (r) maṅk käṣṣi saswe | saim-wäste | : po läklentane ponta |
| 6 | THT 295 a8 | ceu ; puwa{r}ne snai | saim-wäste | ; tallaw se ; |
| 7 | THT 405 a2 | a2 – – rts· weña | saim-wäste | =traikatte ptantse aṣāṃ star |
| 8 | THT 3283 a2 | a2 /// yo lyp· | saim-wäste | – tka – /// |


