äñcesni

Cite this page as:	"äñcesni". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?F_A_äñcesni (accessed 08 Feb. 2026).
Meaning:	Carling et al. 2009: “who?, what?”
Word class:	adjective
Word subclass:	pronoun
Language:	TA
Equivalent in TB:	intsu
Lexeme variants:	äñcesni
Number:	plural
Case:	genitive
Gender:	masculine

Paradigm

	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f	du.m	du.f
nom	äntsaṃ			äntoṃ
voc
acc	äñcaṃ	äntāṃ
gen	äncāni-k, äñcani-k		äñcesni
loc
comit
inst
abl
perl
all
caus

Lexeme family

• äntsaṃ “who?, what?”

  	sg.m	sg.f	pl.m	pl.f
  nom	äntsaṃ			äntoṃ
  acc	äñcaṃ	äntāṃ
  gen	äncāni-k, äñcani-k		äñcesni

Bibliography

Carling et al. 2009

Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.