te

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Meaning:	demonstrative stem
Word class:	adjective
Word subclass:	pronoun
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	te; te=; t=
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	neuter

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	sg.n	pl.m	pl.f	pl.n	du.m	du.f	du.n
nom	se, seṃ, samp, su, su-k	sā, sāṃ, somp, sāu	te, teṃ, tamp, tu, te-k, tu-k	cai, caimp, ceya-k	toy, toyna, toymp, toṃ, tona-k		tai, tai-k
voc
acc	ce, ceṃ, comp, co, cau, ce-k, cau-k	tā, tāṃ, tomp, tāu, tā-k	te, teṃ, tamp, tu, te-k, tu-k	ceṃ, cenän, ceyna, cena-k	toy, toyna, toymp, toṃ, tona-k		tai, tai-k
gen	cwi, cwimp	tāy	tentse, tuntse	cenaṃts, ceṃts, ceynaṃts, cempaṃts, centsa-k	toynaṃts, toṃts		tainaisi, tainaisäñ
loc	cene, caune, cene-k		tūne, teṃne, tu-kne
comit	caumpa		tempa		toynampa
inst
abl	cemeṃ, caumeṃ		temen, teṃmeṃ, tammeṃ, tumeṃ	ceṃmeṃ	toṃmeṃ
perl	compsa, causa		tesa, tūsa, tusa, tusā-k	ceynasa	toṃtsa
all	cewäśc		teśc, tuśc	cenäśc
caus

Lexeme family

• s- demonstrative stem dem
  • cwiññe “pertaining to this one” “his, her, its”

    	sg.m	pl.f
    nom	cwiññe	cwiññana
    acc	cwiññe	cwiññana

  • sanuññe “hatred, enmity, hostility” msg

    	sg
    nom	sanuññe
    acc	sanuññe

  • tumpa “then, therewith”
  • tuwak “this [emphatic]”
  • tune “there in, in it”

Occurrences

t=

1	THT 45 a5	ra śaiṃ ksa ;	t=	ompostäṃ ; kuce – –
2	THT 78 b3	ṣeske kā twe brāhmaṇeṃmpa	t=	epiṅte sak wīb4(na) w(ä)rpāt(ai)
3	THT 118 a6	/// a6 – – – – – {m→p}ässäkwä	t=	oṅkor mälko tākaṃ (k)rui
4	THT 229 a2	; kos ṣpä wälke	t=	epiṅkte : kutäṅkmane ;
5	THT 601 b3	b3 ñmn· ste se	t=	aikemar /// b4 tärne

te=

1

THT 78 a6

waipte : āñme no

te=

yśimar ; waike weskau