salyai

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Meaning:	“line, border”; “rule”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	slyi
Lexeme variants:	salyai
Number:	singular
Case:	accusative
Gender:	feminine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-iye
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-ai

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	sälyiye
voc
acc	salyai	sälyaiṃ
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl	salyaisa
all
caus

Lexeme family

• sälyiye “line, border” “rule” f

  	sg	pl
  nom	sälyiye
  acc	salyai	sälyaiṃ
  perl	salyaisa

Occurrences

salyai

1	PK NS 29 b6	; mā (ra) (ñ)ī	sal(y)ai	;
2	PK NS 32 a6	roce brāhmaṇe ṣañ ypoyntse	sal(y)ai	b1 (lyutstsate) (tumeṃ)
3	THT 86 a5	/// (a)raṇemiṃ lānte ypoytse	salyai	lyutstsante /// b1 ///
4	THT 1262 b2	/// ·ts· pikula pātri	salyai	mātrīśi • toṃ su