telki

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Meaning:	“sacrifice”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	talke
Lexeme variants:	telki
Number:	singular
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	alternating
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-i
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-i
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-anma

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	telki	telkanma
voc
acc	telki	telkanma
gen
loc	telkine
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• telki “sacrifice” n

  	sg	pl
  nom	telki	telkanma
  acc	telki	telkanma
  loc	telkine

  • telkiṣṣe “pertaining to a sacrifice”

    	sg.m
    nom	telkiṣṣe
    acc	telkiṣṣe

  • telkanmaṣṣe “pertaining to the sacrifices”

    	pl.m
    acc	telkanmaṣṣeṃ

Occurrences

telki

1	IOL Toch 676 b2	ñm· /// b2 ///	(te)lki	yām(ts)i ///
2	IOL Toch 884 a1	a1 ///	(te)lki	yāmi yarpo lk(āṣṣeñca) ///
3	THT 23 b4	āyor ; mā ra	telki	; kartse yāmor ;
4	THT 28 a6	mā āyor mā ra	telki	; yamalñe – kwälñe
5	THT 307 b3	b3 /// k wärñai	(te)lki	yāmor kekuwer ṣpä śaiṣṣe
6	THT 541 a4	·t· ṇḍilayajña • śp(ā)lmeṃ	tel(k)i	– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – ghoṣo vā •