āṣānik
| Cite this page as: | "āṣānik". 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_āṣānikk (accessed 09 Mar. 2026). |
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| Meaning: | Carling et al. 2009: “venerable, worthy of respect” |
| Word class: | adjective |
| Language: | TA |
| Equivalent in TB: | aṣanīke |
| Lexeme variants: | āṣānik; āṣānikk |
| Number: | singular |
| Case: | nominative |
| Gender: | masculine |
Paradigm
| sg.m | sg.f | pl.m | pl.f | du.m | du.f | |
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| nom | āṣānik | āṣānikāñ | ||||
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| acc | āṣānikāṃ | |||||
| gen | āṣānikyāp | āṣānikāśśi | ||||
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Lexeme family
- āṣāṃ “worthy”
sg.m nom āṣāṃ - āṣāṃtsum “worthy”
sg.m acc āṣāṃtsumänt - āṣānik “venerable, worthy of respect”
sg.m pl.m nom āṣānik āṣānikāñ acc āṣānikāṃ gen āṣānikyāp āṣānikāśśi
- āṣāṃtsum “worthy”
Occurrences
āṣānik
āṣānikk
| 1 | A 197 b4 | papä /// b4 räṣṣ | āṣānikk | ānant na /// b5 |
Bibliography
Carling, Gerd, Georges-Jean Pinault, and Werner Winter. 2009. A dictionary and thesaurus of Tocharian A. Volume 1: Letters a-j. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.


