yśelmeṃ

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Meaning:	“desire, pleasure”
Word class:	noun
Language:	TB
Equivalent in TA:	yśaläm
Lexeme variants:	yśelmeṃ
Number:	plural
Case:	accusative
Gender:	masculine
Inflection class:
Nom. sg. (masc.):	-e
Obl. sg. (masc.):	-e
Nom. pl. (masc.):	-i

Paradigm

	sg	pl	du
nom	yśelme	yśelmi
voc	yśelma
acc	yśelme	yśelmeṃ
gen		yśelmeṃts, yśelments
loc		yśelmeṃne
comit
inst
abl		yśelmenmeṃ
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• yśelme “desire, pleasure” m

  	sg	pl
  nom	yśelme	yśelmi
  voc	yśelma
  acc	yśelme	yśelmeṃ
  gen		yśelmeṃts, yśelments
  loc		yśelmeṃne
  abl		yśelmenmeṃ

  • yśelmetstse “sensual, belonging to desire”

    	sg.m	pl.m
    nom	yśelmetstse
    acc		yśelmecceṃ

  • yśelmeṣṣe “pertaining to desire”

    	sg.m
    nom	yśelmeṣṣe

Occurrences

yśelmeṃ

1	IOL Toch 216 b3	yśelmi särwāna b3 ///	yś(e)lmeṃ	yparwemeṃ ñyātse b4 ///
2	IOL Toch 435 a3	yai /// a3 ///	yś(e)lmeṃ	śkāwa – /// b1
3	IOL Toch 783 b2	b2 /// (ai)k(e)mār kuse	yśe(lmeṃ)	/// b3 /// (ṣamā)ne
4	PK AS 1B a4	(:) sarvakāmaparityagī • po	yśelmeṃ	päst rinaṣṣeñca • atyantaṃ
5	PK AS 1B b1	yataḥ kāmān anusaran kātu	yśelmeṃ	postäṃ ynemane • na
6	PK NS 44 a4	(yo)lo pilko tsäṅkā-ne se	yś(e)lmeṃ	lāre yamasträ mā cwi
7	PK NS 62 b3	ṣa(mā)ne /// b3 ///	(yśelmeṃ)	(lāre) (ya)mastär mā (cwi)
8	PK NS 156 a2	·p· /// a2 ///	(yśe)lm(eṃ)	yaikormeṃ pontäṃ kärs(ormeṃ) ///
9	THT 273 a1	no ākeṃ 20-5 wrocceṃ	yśelmeṃ	; rinäskenträ ; mäntäk
10	THT 317 a6	ṣamanmire mant weṣṣä kuse	yśelmeṃ	lare a7 /// ·ä
11	THT 1349.g b2	/// b2 /// ra	yśelmeṃ	/// b3 /// ·ā