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warśaiṃne

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Meaning:	“undergrowth, thicket”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in other languages:	Skt. kāpatha-
Lexeme variants:	warśaiṃne
Number:	plural
Case:	locative
Gender:	feminine_plural

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	warśiye
voc
acc		warśaiṃ
gen
loc		warśaiṃne
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• warśiye fpl

  	sg	pl
  nom	warśiye
  acc		warśaiṃ
  loc		warśaiṃne

Commentary

Only the plural is attested, most likely a noun of the type , yoko, so nom.sg. warśo is theoretically possible as well.

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The basic meaning is 'undergrowth, thicket' and has in m-sip1 b 4 the sense of 'non-penetrable path, dead-end road' (= Skt. kāpatha-). Accordingly, Krause's interpretation "Büsche" in Krause 1952: 179 is basically correct, "(Hoch)fläche" and "orchard" as quoted or proposed in Adams 2013a: 630 is not likely. The gloss "(Hoch)fläche" in Thomas and Krause 1964: 238 seems to be based on the Sanskrit parallel of THT 338 a 1 Skt. vanaprastha-.

Occurrences

warśaiṃne

1	THT 338 a1	lyarkā ; yops= āttsāna	wa(r)ś(aiṃne)
2	THT 542 b3	/// b3/// wärttoṣṣa	warśaiṃne	• prāntāni śayanāsanāni •

Bibliography

Adams 2013a

Adams, Douglas Q. 2013a. A dictionary of Tocharian B. Revised and greatly enlarged. 2nd ed. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.

Krause 1952

Krause, Wolfgang. 1952. Westtocharische Grammatik, Band I. Das Verbum. Heidelberg: Winter.

Thomas and Krause 1964

Thomas, Werner, and Wolfgang Krause. 1964. Tocharisches Elementarbuch, Band II. Texte und Glossar. Heidelberg: Winter.