waimene

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Meaning:	“difficult, arduous”
Word class:	adjective
Language:	TB
Lexeme variants:	waimene; waimen=
Number:	singular; plural
Case:	nominative; accusative
Gender:	masculine; feminine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	waimene	waimene	waimene	waimene
voc
acc	waimene	waimene	waimene	waimene
gen
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• waimene “difficult, arduous”

  	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	waimene	waimene	waimene	waimene
  acc	waimene	waimene	waimene	waimene

  • waimenetstse “painful, difficult”

    	sg.m
    nom	waimenetstse

Occurrences

waimen=

1	IOL Toch 24 a2	(ai)kemane ; pelaikne :	waimen=	ertsi ; krentauna ;
2	THT 127 b5	māñya ; yulyaiñña ;	waimen=	āñu ; källātsi •

waimene

1	IOL Toch 101 b1	b1 yarpo lykaṃntsa olyapotstse	waime(n)e	/// (olyapo)b2tstse kātkeṃ aiśaumyi
2	IOL Toch 1244 b4	/// (ja)yet weta	waimene	yuk(atsi) /// b5
3	THT 44 a6	/// /// yāmṣi ;	waimene	kaltsi tne ; śāsanne
4	THT 127 b2	• weña wälo ;	waimene	; māskune nesau ;
5	THT 127 b3	2σ /// wñā-ne ;	waimene	; ikäṃ pkārsa ;
6	THT 127 b3	; auki nestsi ;	waimene	b4 7σ /// ;
7	THT 127 b4	; yūkalñe cpi ;	waimene	• alyiyatse ; nesälñe
8	THT 127 b4	alyiyatse ; nesälñe ;	waimene	säk ; källātsi 30
9	THT 127 b5	7σ /// ntse ;	waimene	• koylya māñya ;
10	THT 127 b6	preteṃts ; pakwāre ;	waimene	sklok ; wikātsi 30-1
11	THT 127 b6	; ṣamāññe cpi ;	waimene	b7 9σ ///
12	THT 127 b7	mäktauññe ; entsesse ;	waime (ne)
13	THT 295 b5	; olypotse ṣpä ;	waimene	b6 kuce twe mentsi