towi

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Meaning:	“(Chinese) peck [a dry/liquid measure]”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	towi; towī
Number:	plural
Case:	nominative
Gender:	feminine_plural
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-Ø
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-a; -ä; -i

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	tau	tom, towi, towä
voc
acc
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• tau “(Chinese) peck [a dry/liquid measure]” fpl

  	sg	pl
  nom	tau	tom, towi, towä

Occurrences

towi

1	SI P 139.g a2	(la)c a2 (cakanma) 10-3	towi	5 yap lac{†ä} cakanma
2	SI P 139.g a3	lac{†ä} cakanma 2 a3	t(o)w(i)	6 ¤ aka ca{ka}nma
3	SI P 139.g a3	¤ aka ca{ka}nma 2	towi	2 ¤ a4 kuśāni
4	SI P 139.g b1	b1 kapy(ā)reṃts (śeśu)sa ysare	towi	5 b2 aka (cakanma)
5	SI P 139.g b2	(cakanma) 8 yap 5	towi	b3 – – – śca – – –
6	SI P 139.g b3	– – – śa – – 4	towi
7	ГА 1177 a1	śeśusa (y)s(ā)re cakanma 20-6	to(w)i	– a2 saṅkantse śeśu
8	ГА 1177 a4	śeśuwa āka cakanma 6	towi	3 b1 kapyāri yap
9	ГА 1177 b1	– – – mante (ca)k(an)m(a) 10-4	towi	6 b2 kṣudrä ysāre
10	ГА 1177 b2	kṣudrä ysāre cakanma 2	towi	8 b3 kṣ(u)d(rä) yap
11	ГА 1177 b3	kṣ(u)d(rä) yap cakanma 1	towi	9

towī

1

ГА 1177 a2

śeśu yap cakanma 2

(t)owī

6 a3 saṅkantse śeśuweṣ