sumer

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Meaning:	name of the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	sumer
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. sumeru-
Lexeme variants:	sumer; sumerä
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-enta

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	sumer	sumernta
voc
acc	sumer	sumernta
gen	sumerntse
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl	sumersa
all
caus

Lexeme family

• sumer name of the central world-mountain in Buddhist cosmology n

  	sg	pl
  nom	sumer	sumernta
  acc	sumer	sumernta
  gen	sumerntse
  perl	sumersa

Occurrences

sumerä

1

PK NS 30 a4

/// (gra)hanma • vidyu

sumerä

gāṅgä samudträ bra(hmalok) ///

sumer

1	IOL Toch 89 b3	b3 /// 8σ ;	(sume)r	rīye ; nervānṣṣa :
2	PK AS 17F a6	ceu ; ṣecakecce ;	sumer	(r)a : lantuññeṣṣeṃ ;
3	THT 73 b6	; kwäntsaññeṣṣ(e) b6 ;	sumer	rīye ; nervāṃṣṣa :
4	THT 572 a2	/// (la)ntänmpa wayaṃ kwra(kar)	(su)mer	ṣle mänt /// a3
5	THT 1300 a4	sā /// a4 ///	sumer	poyśiññe keṃtsa īme ///
6	THT 1929 a6	: ompa /// a6	sumer	rīye ne ///
7	THT 3597 a4	ṣārkatai : poyśiññeṣṣe ;	sumer	ci ; tärnesa ñäś