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yakṣī
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Meaning: | A certain kind of spirit/ghost, Yakṣa |
Word class: | noun |
Language: | TB |
Equivalent in TA: | yakäṣ |
Equivalent in other languages: | Skt. yakṣa- |
Lexeme variants: | yakṣī |
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Number: | plural |
Case: | nominative |
Gender: | masculine |
Paradigm
Lexeme family
Commentary
Malzahn 2013b.
Occurrences
yakṣī
1 | THT 83 a6 | weṣṣäṃ : saswa appakka | (yakṣ)ī | caimp skente mā brāhmaṇi |
2 | THT 85 a3 | śāmna caimp skente mā | yaa4kṣī | |
3 | THT 506 a2 | mäsketär orotstse yāt(al)ñ(e)cci cai | yakṣī | o /// a3/// |
4 | THT 506 a3 | /// r·ātetāre • cai | yakṣī | orotstse cimpamñecci /// a4 |
Bibliography
Malzahn 2013b
Malzahn, Melanie. 2013b. “Of demons and women – TB yakṣa- and oppositional feminine forms in Tocharian.” Tocharian and Indo-European Studies 14: 105–21.
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